Journalists are the most hated people in Ethiopia

It must be rather frustrating for the journalists of Ethiopia they have very limited topics to talk about incase it offends the rulling party who have a iron grip on the country in everyway from the economy to the choice of music thats played from their cars. Patriotic music is banned and superstar singer like Teddy Afro are thrown in prison and released to subdue him and join the oligarchy and stop giving free public uplifting conerts. Journalists are persecuted if their article has a hint of insulting the government in anyway, they must write articles that praise the governements work only and ignore the negative things around like the extreme hunger and poverty the sale children to every tourist who can buy one child get the sibling free. The jouranlists are banned from reporting the high number of Ethiopian maids murdered or comitting suicide due to inhumane working conditions in Arab countries. These women are routinely picked and promised work by government agencies that exports the women for a fee. So many Ethiopian private magazines are closing down because of a word or an article or a picture of the lion judah, its becoming hard for them to ignore the lack of freedom of speech and freedom to support another political party so they are the prisoners of all because they are being told what to write with a gun pointing at them. Journalists are good informers and keep politicians in check and in line they are the windows to what is going on the governement which politician bought a yatch using food aid money. In England is a country which respects journalists. They are currently grilling insulting holding public debates with politicians that are using public tax payers money to buy a duck house refurbish their second homes and taxi fares. see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6364799/MPs-expenses-duck-house-MP-refusing-to-pay-back-40000.html Yet in Ethiopia journalists can not talk about stolen food aid money kept in swiss bank accounts, monopolisation of the ethiopian economy and land to benefit the people in power.  The farmers are treated like serfs in their own land feeding the city dwellers with no profit for themsleves at all. Politicians of Ethiopia are the richest not only do they rule with mafia like behaviour, they also own lots of businesses. Private investors have no chance with government owned businesses. The government owned businesses create bogus laws such as taking away of land and rebuking licences, if they feel somonelse is a threat to them. They misuse the law and take advantage of their postition, journalists are forced to ignore these injustices and accept it. Most journalists are supporting local business ran by hard working members of the public, who are not pouring in bribery money or have soldiers to scare the competition. They operate in covert ways of informing the public in what is happening, their meanings have a double meaning like the ancient Ethiopian tradition of sem ena work which means wax and gold. However on the internet its a different story Ethiopian political refugees grill the ethiopian rulling party EPRF on banned websites that cannot be seen in Ethiopia. Webizines such as Nazret.online are great sources for current news on Ethiopia they are not propaganda based and the writers have no guns pointing at them. People of ethiopian backgrounds are visiting the site on a great basis and people from outside Ethiopia also visit the website to get a clear veiw of whats happening in the country if they choose to invest rather than the painted rosy biased governent flashy websites. http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=ethiopian_paper_quits_under_government_p&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 this particular article is very interesting because the governement would deny they shut down the news paper through some fancy tax payers food aid funded webiste like thishttp://www.aigaforum.com/