SECTOR 3 3.3 The body regulates broadcasting services and licences in the public interest and ensures fairness and a diversity of views broadly representing society at large. “With community and public media, the NBB is dead in the water.” The NBB has no regulations or policies, and no guiding principles with regard to ensuring fairness or a diversity of views. Its only real activity is to license commercial broadcasters, which it does well. “With community and public media, the NBB is dead in the water. The state media is state media, not public media. They (staff ) are public servants and not journalists. The NBB has no power over them.” Internet broadcasters also fall beyond the scope of the NBB. 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: 1.9 (2005 = 1.3; 2007 = 2.1; 2009 = 1.8) 3.4 The state/public broadcaster is accountable to the public through a board representative of society at large and selected in an independent, open and transparent manner. There is no board for Botswana Television (BTV) or Radio Botswana 1 and 2, as they are run as government departments, within the Office of the President, with staff hired by the Directorate of Public Service Management, as is the case with all government employees. Therefore, the state broadcaster is not accountable to the public at all. 42 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER BOTSWANA 2011