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/ 21 October 2003
What are the consequences of the media’s tendency to oversimplify? Paula Slier questions the experts on local media’s coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
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/ 21 October 2003
Earlier in the year, unable to sell its media assets, Johnnic Holdings embarked on a plan to realise shareholder value through streamlining the corporate structure. How does Connie Molusi, Johncom’s new CEO, hope to unleash the group’s potential? Kevin Bloom reports.
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/ 21 October 2003
With ‘trial by media’ one of government’s favourite diversionary slogans, what happens when the big corruption scandals eventually make it to a real trial? Criticism of the judiciary is a criminal offence, cautions Toni Erling.
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/ 21 October 2003
Once the only site of resistance to Daniel Arap Moi’s tyrannical regime, Kenya’s newspapers are now being co-opted by President Mwai Kibaki’s Narc coalition. George Ogola laments the decline of his country’s strongest political opposition.
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/ 21 October 2003
Tongue firmly in cheek, Harry Herber remarks that South Africa’s average media planner and agency creative is “absolutely brilliant.” By article’s end, it’s apparent that he’s equating the industry’s ‘whiteness’ with its meekness.
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/ 21 October 2003
An astute media professor, confronted with the apathy of his first-year journalism class, throws a question into the lecture hall. “Do the media reflect or represent society?” he asks. The class’s interest is piqued when the good professor explains why anyone should care.
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/ 21 October 2003
According to Donald Paul the new hotly contested publishing niche is the girls market. Will the soon-to-be Seventeen dominate?
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/ 21 October 2003
According to ICASA regulations, community radio must reconcile the non-profit ideals of media democratisation with the necessity of turning a buck. How is the advertiser served? Nadia Neophytou reports.
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/ 21 October 2003
Once, when a female editor of a women’s magazine told him that a submitted piece wasn’t funny, David Bullard suffered the torment of a potency scare.
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/ 21 October 2003
African language radio stations ain’t what they used to be –- they’ve emerged from decades of apartheid suppression as viable mouthpieces of the new democracy. But now the station managements need to project a vision of their ability to garner revenue, and marketers need to recognise the value in the public broadcast audience.