If you refer to history, you are going to discover that around 1988 the Chronicle was a topping publication, unearthing corrupt tendencies under the famous Willow-gate Scandal. It was in those by-gone times that The Zimbabwe Monitoring Media Trust (ZMMT) not only kept a watchful eye on these publications but also created a buffer zone between the media and the state as well.
Today it is however a different story. It is either the Chronicle is worried about increasing sales or something else.
Research has revealed that the lack of balance in news is caused in part by the public refusing to open up and in part by journalists attaching themselves to different camps and then reporting from there. According to a research by Wallace Chuma in 2013, the state media is bent on protecting "national interests" and in the process opinions are reported. A closer look at these pictures reveals that the dominating subject are sex-scandals. In the process of covering such stories, one cannot run away from publishing information that puts the person being covered in false light.
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