| Governments regulate media companies. You don't
hear in the news, the things that the governments think will embarrass
their regimes, so they control the media outlets and make the only
stories they want to make available to the people as news. They hide
their failures, corruption and human rights abuse. The world hardly gets
to hear the actual truth behind the story, we only get the news that has
sometimes been altered, filtered or edited by the government so as to
suite its policies and image. And the media houses that refuse to abide
by this are closed by the authorities.
With African social TV, the story doesn't undergo any scrutiny or
editing by professionals who may lean towards the government in their
perspective of the story due to fear of prosecution, What is news is
only decided by individual contributors or the end users i.e. consumers.
The manner in which the news is presented doesn't have to look
professional or follow any standards, it is only raw news, direct from
the observer or eyewitness, and mainly the things they don't allow you
to hear or see in the traditional media.
Views of Africans on African issues. You don't have to wait to hear from
big international media company's views on Africa. On social TV, you get
the view of the Africans, on the headlines they are making. News
directly from the source.
Uncut Videos shot by individuals on scenes
as news happen. A good example is shooting a vote rigging scene by a
voter and so on. Such videos can be uploaded by individuals on to the
social TV site and can be viewed globally by people.
Social TV will bring out the truth and
almost push some leaders to stop some of their unlawful acts because it
would probably end up online and before the eyes of the whole world.
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