Comments for Museveni’s love-hate relationship with media at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:44:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-21880 Comrade Kalemba, i read your comments about Mwenda schmoozing with president Museveni and your disappointment with that action. And you go on to utter your disappointment because you think he is reneging on the effort to fight Museveni. Comrade, Mwenda is a journalist whose primary responsibility is to expose what is not right in government, educate people irrespective of their political orientations, and appluad positive achievements if necessary and entertain. This therefore means that in his pursuit to excel at his calling, he has to interact with all including president Museveni without bias. Those who fight Museveni are either in Najjanankumbi(FDC) quarters, City House(at the DP h/qs) and in the jungles of eastern Congo(ADF) and Kony boys in Central African Republic - katureebe Obed Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:26:56 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20631 Well then if it is a hate and love relationship that has survived over 20 years when is it ever going to mature. Such long lasting relationships tend to pick-up culture and patriotism and any other. The days of locking up in prison writers, threatening them with fatwas, and wiping them off this earth are over. What is the last option has this gentleman got left? What if some of these writers stop the relationship. Bannange omusajja asiiba ankuba, gwe lwaki tovayo nonoba. Kabakugunde nawe okiwulire. - kabayekka Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:21:18 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20620 Emp-error, you must be sooo disturbed in your assumptions that you even have the guts to call Uganda´s Parliament Democratically-elected!!! Reports of Ghost-Voters are still fresh in the papers and then that!! Man or Woman give us a Break and feast on your crumbs in State-House awaiting your DAY!! Come it will whatsoever!! - kawonawo james Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:34:18 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20608 andrew, your cosiness with museveni sometimes maes us skeptical about your devotion to fight the man...we sometimes believe ur in his pocket - kalemba Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:11:32 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20586 Emperror come-on stop you're embarrassing yourself and your cause. Any one who is able to read your comments here will only find them laughable. I hope you're not someone of significance in the NRM. Because if you are, it would be vindication to those that say that the government has lost the argument and decided it must fight independent media-kill the messenger. - Kato Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:57:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20543 For sure, the minority is messing up the country. - Watcher Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:42:23 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20539 I clearly understand (and appreciate) calls for due (legal) process when govt deems media to have to have "defamed them or govt personalities". However, you can not call for due process in one breath and the very next breath declare the framework for due process unfair. For all I know, ALL the laws of Uganda are passed by a democratically elected parliament. Having said that, the general perception of NRM (and or M7) losing popularity and therefore resorting to repression is mere political agitation (UPC style) and has no semblance to reality. The events of Sep 09 are merely acts of (and supported / aided by) mere criminals with grand delusions. - Emperror Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:30:58 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20533 I come at it from another angle. Words have been traded about Museveni and the NRM establishing press freedom in Uganda. In my opinion, that is only true to some extent. The one sided view - with accent on what the NRM ushered in - fails to take into account the struggle of the journalists and civil society on freedoms across the board. One of the reason many educated youths and ordinary people supported Museveni and the NRM was because they wanted a new political culture that respected human rights and dignity. That popular agenda was crucial for winning the war. I agree that the media, too, has needed to shape up on professionalism. I also sense some megalomania and harassment on the part of the government or police (you never know which) in dealing with disagreeable journalists. There was always the danger that if the incumbent part was or seemed to be losing popularity, repression would set in. - Rev Amos Kasibante Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:56:30 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20530 The issue with popularity is good governance. Only a narcissist does no wrong. The media and opposition cannot be faulted for reporting poor governance. If the media are defamatory, then sue them. This is standard practice the world over and has kept many a media house in check. It also infringes no one's rights. You cannot however, revert to the dark ages with laws where you clearly and purposefully misconstrue dissension for sedition. It is not western to aspire to liberty and freedom. If it is then what was independence all about? what was the NRA bush war about? Your agenda is false and sounds so much like Pol Pot and Mugabe that you may as well start accrediting rather than plagiarising them. - mbuukuli ya buganda Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:27:33 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20521 It is equally wrong for members of the press to assume that media freedom is above the law. Infact, the abysmal performance of the self regulatory regime in the media industry can be identified as the core reason for the above documented "altercations" between M7 and the listed media personalities. Media (like prostitution) being an age old proffesion, in Uganda fails to pick on the experiences and practices of the western world whom they so crave to emulate, be it only in aspects that they deem will elevate them to saint-hood / martydom. Its a sorry state when commentators like mbukuuli above refuse to see the obvious and instead publicly profess their idiotic thoughts. - Emperror Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:00:25 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/news/news-analysis/79-news-analysis/1967-musevenis-love-hate-relationship-with-media#comment-20502 The narcissist loves the mirror when the mirror reflects back their confidence. They conversely hate the mirror when the reflection confirms their inner turmoil. The mirror is however irresistible to the narcissist because the narcissist ceases to exist without it i.e. "I reflect in the mirror, therefore I am". You see at the core of the narcissist is a self loathing so deep that it can only be quenched by the reflection from the mirror positive or negative. The narcissist's only relief to this mirror addiction is to coerce the mirror into giving only positive reflections. Ultimately, this coercion results in the smashing of the mirror, and with it's demise, the narcissist dies. Narcissists always destroy what they love most, themselves. - mbuukuli ya buganda Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:29 +0100