Nairobi, May 5 -- As is customary, the Tanzania media fraternity celebrated World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) this past week in Dodoma with a number of calls for the improvement of media working conditions in various aspects.

This important day, May 3, was decided upon by the United Nations at a meeting which took place in Windhoek, Namibia, in 1993, in recognition of the importance of the work done by media and media workers, and the need to pay attention to the conditions in which they evolve and the tribulations they have to endure.

As is the wont of such occasions, the activities involved many speeches, mainly from news people, their editors and publishers complaining about the conditions in which they are forced to work.

It was, howe...