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: 2.5 4.3 The media cover the full spectrum of events, issues and cultures, including business/economics, cultural, local and investigative stories. While the broadcasting media focus almost exclusively on cultural and social events, the private print media, particularly magazines, attempt to cover political and economic issues as well. There are over 80 weekly publications in the country, among them 15 sports papers, which all have a niche for specialised reporting. Taken together they thus manage to cover the full spectrum of events and issues (though with a very low circulation). However, the coverage in these small publications is more often than not lacking in substance and quality. Investigative journalism is extremely rare in almost all media across the board. While the state media are in the business of image building for the government and thus publish mainly “positive” stories, there is also very little investigate reporting in the private media. Even where such reports are published, in many cases there is no follow-up on such stories. Lack of skills, of resources in media houses and of cooperation from the public are the main causes for the absence of exposes. Sometimes journalists come to a dead end after starting their investigation because citizens or whistleblowers fear being exposed. 52 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ETHIOPIA 2010