3.10 The state/public broadcaster offers balanced and fair information in news and current affairs, relecting the full spectrum of diverse views and opinions. Panellists felt that news bulletins and current afairs programming are too heavily skewed on subjects on the political agenda, particularly that of the Government. Subjects without any major news value are placed at the top of news programmes merely because they involve the Head of State, members of the government or the party in power. his includes, for example, ceremonies where the President of the Republic receives the credentials or farewell greetings of the heads of diplomatic missions accredited in the country. Furthermore, as politics are dominated by men, news and general information services have a heavy gender imbalance. he situation is less pervasive in entertainment and cultural programmes. Some participants emphasised the tendency to “ban” certain “voices” whose positions are usually contrary to oicial positions. hey noted that this tendency has become worse since the demonstrations of 1 and 2 September 2010. 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 (2005 = 1.7; 2007 = 3.7; 2009 = 3.5) 3.11 The state/public broadcaster offers as much diverse and creative local content as economically achievable. here is considerable efort to ofer the public varied local content. his is especially true of RM, which broadcasts through its network of provincial stations. TVM tries to achieve this diverse and creative local content through programmes such as “See Mozambique”, which tries to provide a systematic account of local reality in 112 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2011