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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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- The World Cup and Trafficking – fears, hype & fatigue!
“It is a crisis, it just wasn’t a crisis according to how we as journalists expected it to be. It’s an indictment, it’s a problem with journalists that we follow the pack, and we follow certain stories that are in the news and when it’s out of the news it dies.”
- Khadija Magardi, Senior Journalist“Do I think we acted responsibly? Absolutely. Do I think the NGOs acted responsibly? No. I think there was a lot of fear mongering before the world cup”
- Kevin Ritchie, Editor, Saturday StarThese are some of the insights uncovered by child journalists Khumo Baduza and Khotso Zhile in their documentary, for Media Monitoring Africa’s “Child Protection and Trafficking: Is the Media Telling the Right(s) Story”
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- Changing the light bulb
“Instead of working in the dark, we should change the light bulb. This project is changing the bulb”
That’s how Susanne Martin of the European Delegation described a new project launched today: Children and Media: Championing Best Practice.
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- A South African First: Child Media Monitors make a submission to the Press Council
For the first time children will be making an oral submission to the Press Council in its current review process. Children from local schools work with Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) as part of its Children’s Media Monitoring Project (CMMP). These child media monitors, who keep a close eye on the media and do daily monitoring on its representation of children, will be giving their suggestions to the Press Council.
MMA will also be making its submission to the Press Council directly after the children’s slot, and will give balanced views on the ongoing debates around calls for a Media Appeals Tribunal, poor and unethical reporting, accountability and regulation of the press.
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