The media should not blink, they must hold power to account

And that there really is nothing to be gained by bringing this aspect of the debate back on the public discourse. What is however, irrefutable is the shiftless debate on the extent to which the media is capable of fulfilling and performing the roles ascribed to it. In an ideal world, the powerful and the media should not sleep together.

This is because according to old adage, the media’s role is to afflict the powerful while comforting the powerless.Power and the media still have to co-exist. Show me a society that has no free media and I will show you a dictatorship. In Botswana, the media has done an exceptional job detailing the picture of the country’s public health sytem, especially the shortages of medical supplies.The media has done exceptionally well narrating the story of collapsing schools infrastructure.