SA newspapers: manufacturing dissent?
The eminent American scholar-activist Noam Chomsky published a celebrated critique in 1988 of the media in the United States. The ...
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SA media: Capital’s lapdog instead of SA’s watchdog
The media in our country would have us believe that it is the champion of the public interest at all ...
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An unreliable Witness
A comrade from Pietermaritzburg has just brought to my attention an editorial in last Friday's The Witness ('Spectre of Censorship', ...
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No media freedom without media diversity
The National Assembly’s Portfolio Committee has, over the past few weeks, been holding important hearings on the state and transformation ...
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SOS Coalition throws down the gauntlet to SABC board
It is a turbulent time for the troubled national broadcaster, as the SABC reels from one disaster to the next. ...
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The Red October campaign: what’s really in the public interest?
Recently appointed Sowetan editor, Mpumelelo Mkabela, has been trying to impress his bosses by boosting sales with trashy tabloid stories. ...
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