Uganda SCORES: Individual scores: 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2 Average: 2.0 2.11 State print media are not subsidised with taxpayers’ money. ANALYSIS: The New Vision and its subsidiaries are not subsidised with taxpayers’ money. They are run as businesses and pay dividends to government. SCORES: Individual scores: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4 Average: 4.7 2.12 Government does not use its power over the placement of advertisements as a means to interfere with media content. ANALYSIS: Because Uganda’s economy is small, the government is the biggest advertiser (overall 40 % of all ads, 60 % in print). On a number of occasions this power has been used to tame critical media. In the 1990’s Government put an advertising ban on the private newspaper The Daily Monitor following stories and opinion pieces that were viewed as critical to government. This was interpreted by government officials as a ban on all private media considered to be antigovernment, like The Shariat. 18 African Media Barometer - Uganda 2007