The future is in the past

The debate on the Media Practitioners Bill is clouded by a discontinuity in the appreciation of its history. Below, Rampholo Molefhe, also a former chairperson of the Botswana Journalists Association, holds that the minister and advocates of the press are both barking up the wrong tree.

This contribution must begin with a critique of the perversion that the title of 'media' has brought to the local tradition of journalism. It probably is not the same elsewhere in the international community.