”There are times and places when being brave should not be a good sign. Take journalism, for instance. Unlike with, say the Nobel Prize, a country whose journalists are renowned for their courageous journalism should feel ashamed of itself,” writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
Newspaper columnist Jon Qwelane on Wednesday at a public forum organised by the South African Human Rights Commission refused to apologise for calling a former colleague a ”coconut” for objecting to a recent, blacks-only Forum of Black Journalists event. The forum discussion was frank and at times heated.
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/ 16 September 2007
Throughout history, we have been taught to see the media as instruments of change with a role to play in nation-building and fighting for a just society. The belief that working as a journalist is a way to fight oppression and contribute to the creation of a non-racial, democratic and united nation was what motivated and inspired the passionate idealism of black and white media workers.