Own Correspondent|Top former Zimbabwean radio and television personality now based in the United Kingdom, Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has blasted local media for falsely reporting that a Zimbabwean woman had shot and killed her husband in the UK before turning the gun on herself.
The touching story which was captured by several media houses, was broken by state run media in the early hours of Friday morning.
The story was broken by Bulawayo based Chronicle newspaper senior reporter Pamela Shumba on Friday.
Addressing the issue on his Facebook page, Sibanda castigated the local media for rushing to run the story without verifying the facts of the matter.
Wrote Sibanda:
A person who reads nothing at all is better informed than person who reads nothing from some of Zimbabwe’s on line publications and newspapers. Today, a number of Zimbabwe online and state news papers claim that a Zimbabwean woman in the UK shot and killed her husband. This is untrue. Its utter trash.
What has happened to really journalism? Is the noble profession gone to dogs? This is a heinous crime. Loraine Gugulethu Mbulawa did not shoot her husband a Mr Sanchez as reported by the so called press. There is no truth in that police named her as the killer. Yet some masquerading as news breakers would copy and paste from pariah websites being run by untrained and unprofessional journalists. Whats the hel is going on?
Lolo’s family are mourning the tragic loss of their loved girl yet some so called media people are busy creating and sharing lies just to push hits on their sites. This is destroying the family and friends of the deceased. Journalists who are lazy to verify facts and get correct information about an unfortunate incident are simple masquerades and fake all day long. They sham journalism industry and soil the name of many good journalists out there. The family and Police were available to give anyone information about the incident but some chose to create fake news hurting family & friends, unbelievable.
We now have influential fake media that help people believe what they want to believe, irrespective of factual accuracy. In a nutshell, we no longer inhabit a shared reality, and as a result, major problems are created, families hurt and at the same time some have promoted hate and division. What is happening is horrible for the family, to keep reading lies and falsehood about their own child is destroying them. Let the family come to terms with their tragic loss and stop adding salt to injury with your fake stories.
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