4.2. The standard of reporting follows the basic principles of accuracy and fairness. Analysis: In general the media organisations follow the principles of accuracy and impartiality. However there are still some areas that interfere negatively in the reporting like, for instance, the excessive usage of adjectives. SCORES Individual scores: 4; 4; 3; 4; 4; 4; 4; 4; 3; 4 Average score: 3.8 4.3. The media cover the full spectrum of events, issues and cultures, including business/economics, cultural, local and investigative stories. Analysis: There is an effort towards that end but the media is not yet capable of covering all the relevant news events. The notion of what is really public interest is expanding throughout the media organizations. SCORES: Individual scores: 4; 4; 3; 4; 4; 3; 3; 3; 4; 4 Average score: 3.6 4.4. Gender mainstreaming is promoted in terms of equal participation of both sexes in the production process. Analysis: This is an area where there is not enough progress and there is still gender imbalance. Some male journalists sometimes even tell their female colleagues that journalism is not for women. This causes women not to feel motivated to join the profession. Recently there was a public recruitment drive for Radio Mozambique journalists in the capital of Zambézia Province, Quelimane. All the fifteen applications belonged to men. SCORES: Individual scores: 1; 1; 2; 2; 2; 1; 2; 2; 4; 2 Average score: 1.9 4.5. Gender mainstreaming is reflected in the editorial content. Analysis: There is a growing number of women that are sources of information at official level. However, it will be difficult to reflect gender equity in the news because the news does not depend on journalists but rather from the events. If the protagonists are men they will be there but if those protagonists are women, men will also be there; the Mozambican society is still mainly dominated by men in as far as decision making is concerned. There are potentially more men more news prone areas and what one is witnessing in the editorial content is not intentional. So This Is Democracy? 2007 -188- Media Institute of Southern Africa