Section 9 (6) of the UBC Act determines that … any Director who has any personal interest in any transaction of the Board or any matter before the Board shall disclose the nature of his or her interest to the Board, and shall be disqualified from taking part in the deliberations of the Board with respect to that transaction or matter. 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: 1.1 (2007: 1.2) 3.6 The editorial independence of the state/public broadcaster from political influence is guaranteed by law and practiced. Analysis: Section 5 (1)(h) of the UBC Act 2005 mandates UBC to “maintain a responsible editorial independence”. “Responsible”, in the Ugandan context, could be interpreted as journalism that does not antagonise the government. The same law says that the minister “may … make Regulations generally for the better carrying out of the provisions” of the Act. This could include editorial policies. UBC journalists have been described as people still susceptible to the mind-set of the past when they were obliged to cover the President and ministers exclusively. The transition from a state to a “public broadcaster” has not been systematic: the corporation is still locked in the structures of the old state broadcaster, with the minister interfering directly. While addressing a roundtable discussion on a study on public broadcasting in Uganda in December 2009, the minister for AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2010 49