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- Reporting Human Trafficking – can sensitivity and accuracy outsell sensationalism?
On the 3rd March 2011, an audience gathered at the Bioscope on Fox Street in Johannesburg for the first exclusive airing of the radio documentary “Human Trafficking and Child Protection: Is the Media telling the right(s) story”.
We’ve compiled a collection of the most thought provoking moments from the discussion that followed.
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- Media group tries to rescind access to Terre’Blanche trial
A media monitoring group is trying to rescind an order granting the family of slain rightwing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche access to his trial as it “infringes on the rights of the child”.
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) submitted its application to the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.
MMA director William Bird said the family and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging were granted access even though they were not party to an application for access made by the media.
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- ET se familie dalk hoftoegang geweier
A media monitering organisation has attempted to ban the family of murdered AWB leader EugeneTerre’Blanche’s from attending his murder trial, because such access could violate the rights of a minor accused.
Media Monitoring Africa yesterday lodged an application in the High Court.
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- ET-moord: ‘Familie en publiek hoort nie in hof’
The human rights organization Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) yesterday submitted an application in the Pretoria High Court seeking that Mr. Eugene Terre’Blanche’s family members and the public not be allowed attend the trail of his alleged killers.
The murder trial begans on 13 May.
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- SABC mum on rights to air royal wedding
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is yet to confirm whether it has secured the broadcasting rights to Prince William and Katherine’s wedding.
Free to air channel ETV has already confirmed it will follow Katherine Middleton as she walks down the Westminster Abbey aisle later in April.
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- MMA’s application on public & family access in the Eugene Terreblanche trail
In the Pretoria High Court Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), represented by the Centre for Child Law (CCL) submitted its application in the Eugene Terreblanche murder trial, seeking to rescind elements of a court order, granting limited access to members of the Terreblanche family and the public.
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- Ombudsman slams ANCYL over slurs
The ANC Youth League’s (ANCYL) scathing attack on the media’s self-regulatory system has drawn a strong rebuke from the Press Ombudsman.
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- ANCYL: The Value of Vitriol?
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) condemns in the strongest possible terms the statement issued by the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in which it dismissed allegations of hate speech against spokesperson Floyd Shivambu that are currently before the Equality Court as “lies and false.”
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