Malawi
deliberately, as it seems, exclude statements from opposition parties. The vast majority of stories covered are official statements
from the President downwards (hierarchical news). If there is the
odd item on an event organised by an opposition party it is always
the last one in the bulletin.
SCORES:
Individual scores:

2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 1

Average score:

2.1

3.12

The public broadcaster offers as much diverse and creative
local content as economically achievable.

ANALYSIS:
MBC’s radio programming consists almost entirely of local content
and tries to be creative.
TVM’s output is predominantly feed from foreign services such as
BBC or VoA. It does try, however, to produce approximately three
hours of local content per day which is not bad given the economic
circumstances.
SCORES:
Individual scores:

4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 1

Average score:

3.2

OVERALL SCORE FOR SECTOR 3:

2.3

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