The Post will continue improving - Malupenga
The Post will continue improving - MalupengaBy Inonge Noyoo
Sunday July 29, 2007 [04:00]
POST Newspapers managing editor Amos Malupenga has said the newspaper will continually improve on the quality of rural and urban news as it enters its 17th year of existence. And Malupenga said the fact that The Post may sometimes get some facts wrong did not mean it was unethical.
Giving his reflections of The Post’s 16 years of existence on ZNBC’s Mid-morning show yesterday, Malupenga said the newspaper had to go through sweat, pain and bitter experiences through the years.
He said the paper had grown from being a weekly to a daily and from national to regional and would continually improve the content to meet the expectations of readers.
Malupenga said The Post had done quite a lot to build its credibility.
He said The Post had embarked on an ambitious project of Internet Service Provider that would enable it compete favourably with other providers.
Malupenga said in its existence, the newspaper had also made some mistakes, some of which costly.
“We had to be arrested and sometimes we were almost financially strangled. There were deliberate efforts to strangle us financially by the people in power after realising that the arrests were not working,” he said.
And asked on what he thought about some section of society that believed that The Post was unethical, Malupenga said the allegations were not new.
“We have gotten used to such allegations and I can say there is no grain of truth that we are unethical but what could be true is that The Post makes mistakes and when we make a mistake we apologise. It is unfair that people accuse us of promoting hatred because we are guided by our editorial policy and mission statement. There is no malice or hatred involved,” he said.
Malupenga observed that sometimes people made such comments because they did not want to be told the truth.
On President Mwanawasa suggestion that The Post was unethical, Malupenga said though the head of state observed as such, he had also on several occasions praised the newspaper.
“I have also heard him praise The Post that it is professional so maybe it depends on which side of the coin one scratches,” he said. “When we make mistakes it would be best for those who criticise us to say they have made a mistake because sometimes we get facts wrong, but it does not mean that we are unethical.”
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