The Swazi News sports pages gossip column had a revealing item this week (13 October 2007).
It is said one editor (presumably not of the Swazi News) can be seen regularly at a Mbabane bar drinking Castle lager while making corrections to his newspapers.
As is the way with Swazi newspapers, the editor is not named, nor is the source of the story, so we cannot assume the story to be true.
But if it is true, do we have a ‘chicken or the egg’ situation here? Are the newspapers in Swaziland so bad because the editor is a bit pickled when he is editing them? Or does he get a bit pickled because the newspapers are so bad and that’s the only way he can face them?
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