Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 05 2021
This photo taken on December 30, 2020 shows Nation Media Group journalist, Derrick Wandera who is attached to Daily Monitor, being led into a Police vehicle in Kalangala where NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi was campaigning. PHOTO | ABUBAKER LUBOWA
Summary
The issue: Press freedom
Our view: The current restriction of media spaces and right to work and earn a decent living are unacceptable.
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The launch on Monday of Uganda Editors Guild in Kampala is a great first step in building solidarity among media managers, evolving internal mechanisms to raise, and address challenges, sue for their rights and also hold ourselves accountable. This also means media houses, their managers and editors now need to be given space to scrutinize own operations. The media houses must now hold their own to as strict ethical conduct and standards and rights as they would others. Even in cases where such internal resolutions fail, the security agencies should never rush to take the law into their own hands and militarise their responses. Or better still, refer to the supreme law of the land, our Constitution and courts of law, to resolve.