SECTOR 4 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 1.8 (2010 = 4.2; 2008 = n/a; 2006 = n/a) 4.5 Journalists and editors do not practise self-censorship. Journalists practise self-censorship based on the experiences they have. Political stories are tricky because editors may decide not to use them, or if they agree, the owners will not want them published because they have a relationship with the politician. Sometimes journalists write about the smaller parties but these stories keep being spiked, most of the time without reason. All these issues push journalists into taking decisions about what story they are going to write and how they are going to write it. “It starts off as self-censorship and then becomes editorial censorship.” There are journalists who openly align themselves to a political party, which means they are going to be selective about what they will write and what they will overlook. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 56 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER LESOTHO 2012 1.6 (2010 = 2.8; 2008 = 1.3; 2006 = 1.2)