AFC calls for assessment of media environment

Concerned by what it has termed the “rabid political partisanship being undertaken by the state and government-supported media,” the AFC yesterday urged that the Guyana Elections Commission Media Moni-toring Unit offer reports assessing the media environment in the country.

This, the party contended, should be aimed at pushing what needs to be encouraged in local electoral journalism and censuring—without fear or favour—that which needs to be censured.

The AFC pointed to the “banning of journalists from press conferences”, the “abuse of state media towards