Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird writes about his disappointment in the SABC after the release of the latest report into poor governance.
The call by Hlaudi Motsoeneng for 70% of SABC news stories to be positive raises issues of editorial independence, says Media Monitoring Africa.
If the media can shift the way in which it reports on gender-based violence, thousands of deaths might not be so utterly futile, writes William Bird.
The latest Nando’s advert focused on diversity and xenophobia has, unsurprisingly, caused a stir but with the wrong crowd.
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/ 16 September 2011
The Equality Court’s banning of the "Shoot the Boer" song is a reminder of South Africa’s long and prickly history.
There has been very little analysis of what is actually wrong with the existing self-regulatory system of the print media.
Tiger Woods returns to Augusta soon, a year after his historic victory, as the world’s most famous sportsman. Lawrence Donegan finds him coping with programmed assurance – before his loss to Ernie Els last weekend, that is Child prodigy, sporting genius, black icon. Amid all the eulogising it is easy to forget Eldrick “Tiger” Woods […]