News - Media Release
- Addressing the state of the media
Following President Mbeki’s state of the nation address, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) would like to add the following state of the media in South Africa observations. In line with the MMP’s mandate we looked at a number of human rights issues and their relationship to the media. These include press freedom, race and racism, gender, HIV and AIDS, children, and the local government elections.
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- Media Monitoring Project’s Wishlist for the Presidents State of the Nation Address
Dear Mister President,
We at the MMP submit the following wishes for the State of the Nation Address on Friday.
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- How the media can make Women’s Day? National Women’s Day Challenge 2005
Following the highly successful challenge issued to the South African media last year for the coverage of National Women’s Day, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) has decided to re-issue the challenge to media this year. The MMP’s challenge is for the media to mainstream women on National Women’s Day. Instead of media merely concentrating on so called “women’s issues” and only on the celebrations that are set to take place on the 9th of August, the MMP challenges the media to fill their papers, radio broadcasts, television schedules and news programmes with women.
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- Bringing corporates to the campaign
Government has spearheaded the campaign, media has taken its aims and objectives on board, and civil society organisations have been driving the process. The MMP’s challenge presents South Africa’s biggest companies with a clear opportunity to take the 16 Days campaign beyond the 16th day.
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