I have to say I am getting really weary of having to look up the nostrils of people being interviewed on South African TV news broadcasts . Read more
Every now and then I look back into my archives to see if anything in the media world has changed. I found something I wrote in 2001 and indeed the media world has changed significantly but the ad industry not so much. Read more
Following global and domestic media coverage of the Ukraine war leaves me with the distinct impression that it is mostly superficial and biased. Read more
It is a crying shame that the multitude of online shopping sites are largely incredibly efficient until that frustrating last mile. Read more
With only a few exceptions, talk radio is becoming amateurish, tedious and nonsensical. Of increasing annoyance are radio news editors using actuality for the sake of actuality – I presume just to give the bulletin a bit of spark. Typical of this abuse of actuality is when the newsreader reports on a story and then […] Read more
It was entirely predictable that the matric Rage festivals in Ballito and Plettenberg Bay would be cancelled. After all, last year’s events led to considerable Covid-19 super-spreading with thousands of people ultimately being affected by the fallout. Read more
