One reason for this phenomenon is that old styles and habits
of both producers and consumers are simply transplanted from
traditional media into the new media universe[21]. Another reason
is that resources - and investment - in training and talent to exploit
new media’s strengths is not easily forthcoming, and especially in
developing countries when infrastructure is still limited bandwidth
costs exhorbitant and viable business models still unproven. Thus,
many websites of media in poorer countries consist only of a portion
of repurposed content from the parent platform; they also lack archives
and proper search capabilities, let alone instances of multi-media or
interactive journalism. This is one reason perhaps why these platforms
are not treated by many governments as significant. State action against
online newspapers (as in Zambia and Zimbabwe) has been a function
of repressing the parent platform, rather than special problems unique
to the new media as such.