SECTOR 2 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: 2.3 (2005: n/a; 2007: n/a; 2009: n/a; 2011: 2.5) 2.9 Media cover the full spectrum of economic, cultural, political, social, national and local perspectives and conduct investigative stories. The media cover a broad spectrum of different events and topics, but they are not covering a broad spectrum of perspectives. “We are missing the boat on a lot of angles,” commented one panellist. ...there is “no effort to go to the man on the street, to link the issues to the people...” There are days on which all papers carry more or less the same headlines, with the same angles, on stories, and they usually end up, as a panellist stated, “missing the perspectives from below”. All papers will, for instance, cover the discussion about minimum salaries for domestic workers, but no paper will speak to a domestic worker and investigate how they live on their salary. Journalists tend to write from press statements instead of investigating alternative angles on an issue. “We tend to run to the same speakers”, noted the panel. Lastly, there seems to be a (mis)understanding that investigative journalism is only about (high level) corruption. It was agreed that there is “no effort to go to the man on the street, to link the issues to the people”. 38 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER NAMIBIA 2015