Why those maligning the media are getting it wrong

KTN News was one among three local TV stations shut down by the state. [Photo: Courtesy]

Over the past few days I have observed with a degree of bewilderment, the amount of vitriol directed at the four TV stations that were so unreasonably switched off by the Government on January 30 this year.

Self-styled pundits are falling over themselves on social media to give detailed ‘analysis’ of why the TV stations deserved to be silenced. Some have argued that the media took tea at State House in 2013 and is therefore complicit in whatever ills that may be associated with the current government. This group of critics says the media deserves to ‘die its own death’ because it consorted with the same government that is now oppressing it.