A British clipper ship hauls bales of opium to emaciated Chinese addicts as sailors belt out rollicking sea shanties. ”What a wonderful world,” croons Louis Armstrong among stark images of movie stars, musicians and other celebrities cut down by drugs in the prime of life.
Haggai Matar never expected that his sentence would be so harsh. But as the teenage refusenik reports to a military prison on Wednesday, he says he will draw comfort from the judges’ description of him as a threat to the survival of Israel. Matar is one of five young men starting one-year sentences at a prison near Haifa.
A design consisting of two pools of water in the footprints of the destroyed twin towers at the World Trade Centre in New York has been chosen as the memorial to the thousands who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11 two years ago. The design, by the New York-based Israeli architect Michael Arad, was chosen from entrants in an international competition.
From what has otherwise been a dark and difficult week, Roy Clarke has gleaned some reasons to be cheerful. On Monday, the 62-year-old’s name was splashed across the Zambian Daily Mail in a headline that must have puzzled its readers: ”Roy Clarke to Be Deported.”
"The elections were fixed. We know that Lansana Conte was re-elected through fraudulent means and so his tenure cannot be legitimate," remarks Ba Mamadou, chairperson of the Revival Front for Democratic Change: a coalition of opposition parties that boycotted last month’s presidential poll in Guinea-Conakry.
Do women have a future in the newsrooms, or should they simply resign themselves to playing second fiddle? Lack of experience in editing and managing a newspaper hasn’t stood in the way of the appointment of males as editors. Bongiwe Mlangeni looks at gender politics on South Africa’s newspapers.
The dismissal of Mathatha Tsedu as editor of the <i>Sunday Times</i> raises questions not just about transformation of the media, but about transformation of South African society. The two are interlinked, because the media is its own social institution as much as it has an institutional role which impacts on all other social institutions, writes Tawana Kupe.
While unapproved signs and restrictive bylaws are giving many an outdoor media owner a mother of a migraine, operators remain confident about the future of the billboard industry. Megan Chronis reports.
It’s billed as the most measurable medium in the world, yet ironically, for a long time Internet measurement in South Africa has been in somewhat of a flux. Although online’s major selling point is its ability to closely monitor user behaviour, industry in-fighting has tainted the authority of local stats. A new body is about to change all that, writes Matthew Buckland.
It should be the mantra of the money media: No anarchists please, we’re business writers. Financial journalism is about money, stupid, not about people with no money! Graeme Addison sets out to raise the hackles of the financial press.