The Media And Multiparty Politics In Uganda Case Study: 93.3 Kfm Radio

Abstract

This study was carried out to identify and examine the role and challenges of the media in multiparty governance. This is because accessing information and expressing it, is aright of the media Ll BACKGROUNDo In Uganda the media has taken a new role, the concern has been, what they carry, the political and the necessary developments compiled with management changes that has been realized in the multiparty politics measured by the freedom of speech to publish and broadcast material. Uganda is plagued with diseases, poverty, corruption, ignorance and war. So it is better to leave the media to freely broadcast these evils in the Ugandan society without any form of limitation to information. The media is a means of importing information and skills to a huge audience. One pertinent way of making it take part actively in national development, is to deliver through them, pertinent information and also monitor back the response and contribution of the huge population or audience. Therefore it is crucial that the media are incorporated by political pronouncement and consequent development machinery of a multiparty state like Uganda in short, that is how the media particularly the broadcast media will register positive achievement in the new multiparty politics/ state.