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Media Monday - hot topics and topics that make us hopping mad! 29 August 2011

Here is what is on the menu this Media Monday:

  • Sunday Times exclusive, or not…
  • ANCYL activists in Limpopo aim at City Press
  • Rwandan newspaper sucks up to President: an SA case?
  • And how to receive our coveted MMC award?
Read more | Posted: 29 August 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Children, Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, 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?
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! 30 May 2011

Here is what is on the menu this Media Monday:

  • ANC’s rushed job on the Protection of Information Bill
  • Whatever it is, just blame it on the media!
  • Spotlight on police killings
  • Post-election coverage
  • Zuma’s visit to Libya

Read more | Posted: 30 May 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
SA tabloid newspapers: Xenophobic? Intolerant? Nationalistic?

At least 60% of South Africans believe that (black) immigrants are a threat to their jobs and the country’s socio-economic stability, and they should not be allowed in this country, according to the 2011 futurefact survey. This intolerance, further fuelled by ‘anti-immigrant’ stories by some tabloid newspapers such as Daily Sun, has led some analysts to question the real motives of tabloid journalism in SA.

Read more | Posted: 18 May 2011 | News - MMA in the Media | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Media Freedom and Performance
Media Matters’ Monday Bulletin

It’s another jam packed Media Monday Bulletin

Here are the highlights

  •  Is good news not news?
  • Is the ANC afraid of transparency ?
  • Black, white, coloured and shades of grey
  • The service delivery story
  • Have we lost interest in Lybia?
Read more | Posted: 14 March 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Gender, Children, Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
From race issues to social networking…. Media@SAfm with Ashraf Garda

Last Sunday’s Media@SAfm radio show, hosted by Ashraf Garda, was kicked with a discussion on how media report race issues. William Bird, Executive Director of Media Monitoring Africa, and Lucy Holborn, Research Manager of the South African Institute of Race Relations, were in studio chatting about the topic, including the racial debate made by Kuli Roberts.

Read more | Posted: 9 March 2011 | News - MMA in the Media | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Media Freedom and Performance
MMA takes issue with Kuli Roberts column

Media Monitoring Africa has encouraged readers to complain to the Press Ombudsman about a controversial article written by Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts, in which she makes numerous derogatory statements about coloured people, writes Jackie Bischof for journalism.co.za.

Read more | Posted: 2 March 2011 | News - MMA in the Media | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Media Freedom and Performance
Kuli Roberts’ column scrapped after outcry

Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts’ weekly offering was axed yesterday after an outcry followed her ‘‘racist” column about coloured people.

Her regular column, Bitch’s Brew, appeared at the weekend under the headline Jou ma se kinders (Your mother’s children).

Read more | Posted: 2 March 2011 | News - MMA in the Media | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Media Freedom and Performance
Media Matters’ Monday Bulletin

What is on the menu this Media Monday?

  • Being responsible for what you send and receive on the web
  • Kuli Roberts and a racist “Bitch’s Brew”?
  • It’s raining manifestos in Electionville
  • Sides of the coin to Budget Speech
  • PAIA – what does it stand for and are amendments important?
  • And we introduce our newest MMC!
Read more | Posted: 28 February 2011 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Gender, Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance
Media Monday Bulletin

It’s been an interesting weekend for media matters, forget the good the bad and the ugly. Instead we had the bad, the terrible and the confusing – and plenty of comment worthy stuff in between.

Find it also on mediamattersza.posterous.com

Read more | Posted: 1 November 2010 | News - Newsletter | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity, Democracy and Governance, Media Freedom and Performance

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