You discover that decisions that should have been taken were not taken. This inappropriate decision making process led to a poor quality newspaper that nobody wanted to buy.'' ''The very first thing we had to do was to improve the quality of the newspaper. Unfortunately, years of conservative management had created a situation where many of the staff were not sufficiently exposed to ways of handling the challenges posed by today's journalism. So a lot of re-orientation had to be done, changing procedures that were formally used, changing the perception of the editorial staff despite the fact that the newspaper is government owned,'' he said. There was a pervasive atmosphere of civil service and people did not think that the newspaper needed to compete with other newspapers.
Some publishers are politicians and they are using their newspapers to fund political interests.
It is the same story in the electronic media. Some government and private-owned radio stations owe staff as much as six months in back wages.