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Mar 03, 2015 News
One key elections watchdog body is operational, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) announced yesterday.
The recently launched Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) started its work since Sunday, March 1st, monitoring the country’s mainstream print and broadcast media, as well as selected online media.
According to GECOM, this comes after staffers of the unit completed a rigorous five-day Media Code of Conduct familiarization exercise, during which they were given expert guidance in understanding, interpreting, and implementing the 2015 Elections Media Code of Conduct.
The MMU will be producing its first report for the monitoring period March 1 – 31, 2015, and will make it available to all media houses sometime between the first and second weeks of April, 2015.
According to GECOM, the analyses in the reports to be produced by the MMU will primarily be aimed at providing a complete picture regarding the level of journalistic professionalism employed by all media operatives; the access granted by media owners/managers/editors to candidates and/or political parties in the mass media and whether the coverage provided by media houses is fair and balanced.
The unit will also be studying the tone of media coverage towards candidates and political parties, and whether the electorate is gaining diverse, comprehensive and impartial information from all media in order to make an informed choice on Election Day.
GECOM said that the findings of the MMU reports will be in line with the recently signed Elections Media Code of Conduct.
Recently, the European Union said it has released $5.8M for the operations of the MMU.
The MMU’s job will be much tougher now.
It has to contend with the existing newspapers, three online news sites, and several radio stations.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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