Professor Tawana Kupe argues that Jacob Zuma’s cries of "trial by media" are misinformed. The media works on the presumption of reasonable suspicion, not on the legal presumption that one is innocent until proven guilty.
It means "quick" or "informal" in Hawaiian. Matthew Buckland explains the latest form of web-based "open content", which has net wizards in a spin.
The predominance of a male-orientated editorial focus in South African media is not only biased, it violates the highest laws in the land. Toni Erling takes issue.
If women didn’t dominate the media environment, we’d have shows like <i>Desperate Househusbands </i>and <i>Show me the Daddy</i>. Harry Herber explains why South Africa mirrors the global trend.
US TV news has a fondness for covering the disappearances of white women, the more attractive and middle-class the better. Sean Jacobs asks what this says about coverage of women in general.
Julie Kelly and Nicky Troll were finalists at this year’s CNN/Multichoice African Journalist awards for a hard-hitting television exposé on stolen police dockets. Their other stories have been equally formidable, one bringing on a serious physical assault by a gang of displeased thugs. Kevin Bloom speaks to two unbending journalists.
Where should long-past-it journos go to live out their twilight years? David Bullard suggests the Hunter S Thompson Memorial Home, where volunteer carers write fan letters to the columnists and phone in to the mock radio station.
Magazine publishers within the parenting and bridal niches are seeing a strong upward curve in circulations and revenue. Can the trend continue? Kim Novick looks into the superwomen sector.
I always am disturbed by people who seem to take pride in not knowing anything about computers. Especially if they use the things on a daily basis. That’s so passive and victim-like, it’s sick. The more you know, the less you need to be a passive, whiney, helpless consumer, at the mercy of evil geeks who will generally do their best to rip you off.
In his widely praised albeit controversial Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC, William Mervin Gumede argues that opposition parties in South Africa "have been caught embarrassingly off guard" by the "dramatic repositioning" of the African National Congress.