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- Invite to: Children – An Election Issue?
There are 19 million children in South Africa
12 million of them live below the poverty line – on less than R570 a month
But are local politicians’ plans for helping our children making the headlines ahead of polling day?
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- Are a man’s dying moments appropriate for page 1?
The media is to be commended in focusing citizens’ attention on a case of police brutality which resulted in the death of a man, by leading news bulletins with reports of this incident, and by reporting it on their front pages.
What is of concern to MMA is that some newspapers chose to publish a front page image of Andries Tatane’s dying moments as he lay in the arms of a man, who was clearly stricken with grief.
MMA’s position is not that violent or traumatic images should never be published, but that if they are, this is as a result of measured consideration, and that the reasons for publishing such an image should be explained.
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- SABC: Violence Exposed, Ethics Ignored
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) welcomes the decision by SABC to give such prominence and attention to the death of a citizen following an incident of police brutality. Nevertheless MMA is concerned about discrepancies in how the story was reported.
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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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- 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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