SECTOR 2 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country minimally meets aspects of the indicator. 3 Country meets many aspects of indicator but progress may be too recent to judge. 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator. 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator and has been doing so over time. Average score: 2.4 (2005 = n/a; 2007 = n/a) 2.7 All media fairly reflect the voices of both women and men, in their ethnic, linguistic, religious, political and social diversity. Analysis: Most newsmakers and sources of news are men. This may be for a number of reasons: culturally, women may not be prepared to speak to the media; it may also be because fewer women than men hold positions of power. “While the media must take some of the blame for having an imbalance of men/women in their content, it also comes down to the structure of society.” Political analysts and economists whose comments are published in the media tend to be men. “The women are there, but they are not as public as the men.” Women’s issues are receiving more coverage, but mostly in specific dedicated sections, such as women’s programmes on radio or television stations, or women’s pages in the print media. “The women are there, but they are not as public as the men.” In terms of ethnic diversity, some panellists accused NBC TV of being “mostly black and hardly showing any white faces”. Minority groups, such as the San, also receive very little coverage in privately or state-owned media, while rural people are shown far less in the media than urban dwellers. Linguistically, English dominates the print and broadcasting media in Namibia, although notable exceptions are NBC radio’s language services, New Era and The Namibian, both of which regularly feature articles in other Namibian languages. However, the NBC radio services are not transmitted throughout the entire 36 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER NAMIBIA 2009