Public media have been struggling financially and this revenue may assist in paying workers
dues and statutory obligations.

2.6.6. Biased Media Houses lambasted (Daily Nation 20.05.15)
The Annel Silungwe Tribunal investigating embattled Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has
lambasted some private media houses for having created parallel tribunals and viciously
attacking members of the tribunal and potential witnesses using uncouth language.
The tribunal decided that it would hold its proceeding in camera to avoid its standing from being
eroded by whimsical attacks from any section of the media some of which have been known to
freely attack potential witnesses and advocates.
Justice Silungwe stated that the members of the tribunal had not been spared from personalized
and vicious attacks stating that the members had been victims of uncouth language from the
first day the tribunal was appointed by President Lungu.
He said that some media houses and some individuals seemed to have taken sides with little or
no objectivity at all but were full of bias in their reportage.
He ruled that the tribunal would hold its proceedings in camera to avoid the media houses that
had taken sides from serving their own interests, reporting bias, instead of the tenets of integrity
and nobility of the office of the DPP which was safeguarded by Article 58 of the Constitution.
Justice Silungwe said that the unfair, inaccurate and uncouth attacks on members of the tribunal
was an affront to the integrity of the tribunal itself and holding the proceedings in camera would
not only be protecting the integrity of the office of the DPP and the witnesses but would also
safeguard the interests of justice.

2.6.7 Black out herbalists, media told. (Daily Mail 06.06.15)
The Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has written to media organizations to
stop accepting adverts on herbal medicines.
ZAMRA director general Esnart Mwape said in a statement that there has been gross
advertising of medicines without marketing authorization. She urged media houses to only
publish adverts for medicines that are accompanied by written approvals from ZAMRA.
According to the Medicines and Allied Substance Act number of 2013, a person shall not place
on the market, advertise, manufacture, sell, import, supply, administer or deal in any manner
with any medicines or allied substance without marketing authorization issued by ZAMRA.
Any person who publishes such adverts or statement by printing it in any newspaper shall be
guilty of an offence and will be liable to conviction, a fine not exceeding K400, 000 or
imprisonment.

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