One of the major concerns of the mass media during the period leading to general elections is the safety of media practitioners as they go about their legitimate professional activities.
The media and, for that matter, journalists are mandated to provide coverage and inform the public about the activities of political parties in a fair and balanced manner but in the process they sometimes face a lot of intimidation and harassment from the very people they are supposed to be providing coverage for.
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