News - MMA in the Media
- Secrecy Bill Passed
The Director of Media Monitoring Africa William Bird commented in a press release titled “Secrecy Bill: Bad for the country, Worse for South Africa’s International Reputation”.
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- Mbalula vs the media: privacy, dignity vs public interest
Sports minister Fikile Mbalula’s sex scandal, comprehensively exposed by Sunday newspapers City Press, Sunday World and Sunday Sun, has once again fuelled the debate about the burning issue facing South Africa: privacy and dignity versus the public’s right to know where public figures - who many people look up to for inspiration and guidance - are concerned.
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- Children’s News Agency article featured in Times Live written by CNA journalist Alex Rushmere
A grade 10 pupil and a member of the Children’s News Agency, Alex Rushmere, interviewed a range of children on the underworld of buying and dealing in steroids.
Alex spent extensive time with the dealers and customers who desire the effects of steroids.
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- The Children’s News Agency - A chance for us to reclaim our dignity
Entitled, A chance for us to reclaim our dignity, this article was featured in The Times, page 7, on Monday 26 September 2011.
Child journalist: Manthipe Moila for Media Monitoring Africa’s The Children’s News Agency
See original article: (scanned insert included — read more)
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- Sowetan sies no wrong in “public interest” porn-like pic
Thousands of readers salivated indignantly over the Sowetan’s recent shocking but salacious front page, featuring a man and woman in correctional services and police uniforms –in a rather compromising position. William Bird from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) joined in the outrage but in a more considered way. He listed in his statement the usual social and economic problems in South Africa and contrasted them with the “disturbing” fact that the Sowetan chose to “lead with a story featuring sexually explicit material”.
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