Botswana’s media is not the enemy - It’s a mirror of our society

It lands in every newsroom, echoes through every WhatsApp group where people share links and lingers in the mind of every citizen trying to make sense of the world through the headlines they read. Now, to be clear, the media in Botswana is not perfect. No media system in the world is. But, suggestions that nearly all of it is untrustworthy paint an entire profession with a careless brush.

It simplifies a complicated reality and worse, erodes public trust in one of the key institutions of any democracy, a free and independent press.