Idriss Ali Nasser took to Facebook to deliver a scathing rebuke to the broadcaster, invoking a fundamental principle of journalism to make his point. ‘If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both,’ he wrote. Did he fly out on a scheduled Malawi Airlines flight to Johannesburg, or – as has become a recurring pattern – board another unexplained private jet? The intervention comes at a sensitive moment for both the government and the country’s media. Just days earlier, State House issued its own broadside against ZBS and Luntha TV, accusing the broadcasters of spreading false information and demanding the media regulator, MACRA, take disciplinary action against them.