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EDITORIAL: The new normal: Flog the media, kill democracy

Ugandan journalists and activists demonstrate in the capital Kampala on May 3, 2019, to demand the resignation of Godfrey Mutabazi, the executive director of Uganda Communications Commission. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE | DAILY MONITOR

By  The EastAfrican

The irony could not have been lost on anybody when on April 30, the Uganda Communications Commission ordered 11 media houses to suspend 39 journalists, including reporters, producers and news managers, whom it had charged with breach of broadcasting standards.

As it turned out, the offending broadcasts related to news segments concerning the running contest for supremacy between musician turned legislator Robert Kyagulanyi and President Yoweri Museveni.

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