News - Media Release
- MMA welcomes PSB Bill withdrawal but proper policy review must follow
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted with the withdrawal of the Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) Bill, and the commitment shown to proper consultation, review and research.
However MMA urges that consultations must critically include a proper policy review process that adopts a corrective action approach, or else the symptoms of the SABC woes will be temporarily remedied.
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- “SABC offside in Gumede/M&G coverage” says MMA
Rather than acting as an impartial observer SABC appears to have filled the role of a consenting third player in the row between businessman Robert Gumede and the Mail and Guardian newspaper.
That’s according to Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)‘s analysis into the spat between Gumede and the Mail and Guardian – or more specifically the role played by the public service broadcaster in the row and whether SABC has taken sides.
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- George Bizos to open MMA Photography Exhibition
CHILD PROTECTION & TRAFFICKING: Is the Media telling the right(s)story?
Photography Exhibition opening with guest speaker GEORGE BIZOS
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- Through the lens - Child Protection and Human Trafficking
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) invites you to attend the opening of their photography exhibition entitled “Child Protection & Trafficking: Is the Media telling the right(s) story?”
Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill
Wednesday, 17th November 2010
Arrival time - 17:30 to 18:00Photography by documentary photographer and trafficking expert Melanie Hamman, alongside a selection of work produced by learner photographers of Umuzi Photo Club and curated by MMA’s child Media Monitors.
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- Cockroach comment “doomed” says MMA
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) believes that Julius Malema’s comparison of Premier Helen Zille to a cockroach is offensive, inappropriate and grossly insensitive given the word’s use and hideous connotations during the genocide in Rwanda, where it was used to incite the killing of Tutsis.
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