HONOURABLE Cornelius Mweetwa has said something we don’t hear often enough from ministers in charge of information. He says public media can actually hurt the government when it behaves like a praise team. On that score, he deserves credit. When we talk about “levelling the playing field” ahead of elections, this is exactly what we mean. We mean the simple, practical decision that public media must stop acting like it belongs to whichever party is in office and start acting like it belongs to the public that funds it. And Mweetwa is spot on about the basic reality of human beings. People switch off when they feel cheated. If a ZNBC bulletin is just a conveyor belt of “the President...