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- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 22 August 2011
Here is what’s on the menu this Media Monday:
- Press Council Review’s proposed changes: are they good enough?
- Are the media victims of agenda setters and conspirators?
- SA’s publicly homophobic publication
- Want to be featured as our newest MMC: here is how!
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- Read more | Posted: 22 August 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Gender, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 15 August 2011
Here is what is served this Media Monday:
- The Sowetan front page, “Sies” indeed. Are they at it again?
- The Sunday Times gets the wrong end of the stick, says Helen Zille
- ANC shocked over report alluding to Malema disciplinary action
- And a Communications Science expert for our MMC this week!
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- Read more | Posted: 15 August 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 1 August 2011
On the menu this Media Monday:
- 75 years of SABC: is it a worthy cause for celebration?
- The Chief Justice Ngcobo case: is media representing the elite?
- Media coverage of Malema a possible own goal against ANC’s proposed MAT?
- And our newest MMC who thrust into the limelight when Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan singled him out in the 2010 Budget Speech for one of his "tips for Pravin"!
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- Read more | Posted: 1 August 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 25 July 2011
Here are the top stories for our “Power of the Media” Media Monday Bulletin:
- Julius Malema, the trust fund, the ANCYL’s response and the media
- Oslo attacks: Saturday Star gets it totally wrong
- Case of corporal punishment caught on video
- How you can receive our MMC award?
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- Read more | Posted: 25 July 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Children, Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 18 July 2011
On the menu this Media Monday:
- Another one bites the dust at SABC as Interface presenter quits
- Media’s 67 Minutes of community (dis)service
- Empty tanks hogs the headlines
- Here is how you can become our newest MMC!
- Read more | Posted: 18 July 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 11 July 2011
Here is what’s coming up this Media Monday:
- Press Freedom Commission launched, ANC still not happy
- UK phone hacking scandal and media regulation: comparison to SA
- Public Protector saga: Police and Justice Departments singing different tunes, are we all just being played?
- And our newest MMC with a sharp eye behind the camera!
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- Read more | Posted: 11 July 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Leadership Crisis at the SABC
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is deeply concerned by the ongoing governance crises at the SABC. The crises seemed to climax in 2007, however despite various attempts to bring stability we seem to be little further than where we were some three years ago, in terms of fundamentally addressing corporate governance issues. MMA believes that the appointment of the GCEO should be made by the SABC board alone.
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- Read more | Posted: 4 July 2011 | News - Media Release | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! July 04, 2011
Here is what got our minds troubled this Media Monday:
- Who needs soapie story lines when when you have the SABC?
- Journalism becoming an even more dangerous profession?
- Service delivery not the cause of our failing education system: Prof Jansen
- And our latest MMC
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- Read more | Posted: 4 July 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! June 27, 2011
Here is what’s coming up this Media Monday:
- SABC swallows deep and apologises;
- The ANC finally agrees to major concessions on ‘Secrecy Bill’
- Nationalisation? Sure the threat might make our stock market crash but what does it really mean? The real issues behind calls for nationalisation of mines sought;
- And our newest whistleblower MMC for this week!
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- Read more | Posted: 27 June 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
- Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! June 20, 2011
Here is what’s on the menu this Media Monday:
- Zuma’s ‘MIA’ stunt on Youth Day: a tale of two broadcasters
- Digital migration under the spotlight: what it means why you should care…
- Sunday World: Of celebrity gossip, maintenance cases, families, etc…
- And finally, our newest MMC who wears odd socks and loses pens at an astonishing rate!
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- Read more | Posted: 20 June 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance