Why is it that our advertising has generally become so dull and unimaginative? And why do editors have to perpetually print apologies for one cock-up after the other where journalists have simply not checked their facts? Read more
One of South Africa’s most influential and trustworthy news and opinion online portals, the Daily Maverick, has seemingly done an about-face by producing a print edition. Is this rank stupidity or diabolically clever? Read more
Of all the politically correct stupidity in this country, one of the most irritating is that last line on most radio ads: ‘Terms and conditions apply’. Now it’s become even worse because all they say is ‘T and Cs apply’. Read more
This coming weekend, South Africa’s most popular online news platform will introduce a subscription service. Read more
Just three months before it would celebrate its centenary, South Africa’s Catholic newspaper, The Southern Cross, has retrenched all of its staff and shut down it print edition. Unlike most successful community newspapers that are given away free and make their money from advertising and inserts, The Southern Cross has always had a cover price […] Read more
