Download or read book The Media Struggles in Zambia written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Zambia, like in many other developing countries, the media has functioned as a tool of the ruling class to help it mobilise people allegedly for the economic and social development of the country, but in reality, to promote the interests of the ruling class. [...] The blame for the state of the country's media should fall on the shoul- ders of Zambia's first President, Kaunda, and his Party and Government leaders who turned the country to the socialist principles of the former Soviet Union and the other Eastern Bloc countries whose economic and political organisation they tried to emulate. [...] However, the amendment to Article 17 of the Constitution which allowed the reversion to political pluralism, and the relaxing of some political restrictions had not until the year 2003, by and large, extended to the press. [...] The re-emergence of private-owned newspapers at the start of the 1990s saw the birth of the Weekly Post, which later became a daily newspaper and changed its name to The Post newspaper. [...] The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services must start to implement the reforms recommended by the 1993 Media Reforms and the Coopers and Lybrand Report, adding that there was need for political will in the implementation of the reforms; Makungu 3.p65 20 21/10/2004, 11:21 Makungu: The Media Struggles in Zambia 21 b.