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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Prominent social media journalist, Hopewell Chin\u2019ono has been criticised by some journalists for suggesting they were bribed to not report the Wadyajena bail hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Wadyajena\u2019s bail hearing on a US $5 million corruption charge was not reported live by most publications as well as journalist feeds on social media. The lack of live reporting on the hearing led to Chin\u2019ono tweeting:<\/p>\n

Zimbabwean media, are you going to pretend like you\u2019re not seeing my tweets?<\/p>\n

Where is your reporting of today\u2019s court proceedings in the Justice Mayor Wadyajena\u2019s US $5 million case?<\/p>\n

We know that money was offered yesterday for a media blackout.<\/p>\n

Are you not embarrassed?<\/p>\n

Chin\u2019ono later deleted the tweet, for undisclosed reasons. Prominent opposition politician David Coltart also asked about the apparent silence?<\/p>\n

There does not appear to be any report regarding the Zanu PF MP Hon Justice Mayor Wadyajena\u2019s US$5 million looting case today. Can anyone shed any light on what has happened? Surely this is a matter of public interest<\/p>\n

@DailyNewsZim @NewsDayZimbabwe @HeraldZimbabwe?<\/p>\n

Responding to Chin\u2019ono, ZimMorningPost founder and editor Elias Mambo said in a tweet \u201cRespect your colleagues mkoma wangu..????\u201d and in another lengthy tweet:<\/p>\n

I know you don\u2019t rate journalists asi havauye kubasa kwenyu kuzokuudzai zvekuita.<\/p>\n

When they wrote the story that Mayor had been arrested, had you asked them to?<\/p>\n

Why are you make ugly insinuations now?<\/p>\n

If you so vested why didn\u2019t you go to the courts yourselves ?<\/p>\n

Another journalist commented:<\/p>\n

It has become easy to attack journalists and journalism. It seems everyone now knows how we should do our work and when.<\/p>\n

It is not clear if indeed bribes were offered to journalists to ignore the proceedings.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Prominent social media journalist, Hopewell Chin\u2019ono has been criticised by some journalists for suggesting they were bribed to not report the Wadyajena bail hearing on Thursday. Wadyajena\u2019s bail hearing on a US $5 million corruption charge was not reported live by most publications as well as journalist feeds on social media. 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