News - MMA in the Media
- DTT Draft Regulations hearings underway
The South African Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is holding public hearings this week on the digital terrestrial television (DTT) Draft Regulations. Presentations from the SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition, Media Monitoring Africa and public broadcaster SABC are scheduled.
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- Media Monitoring Africa calls for Press Council overhaul
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has called on the Press Council of South Africa to make significant changes so that it can better protect consumers against a media that is “dumbing down” readers by favouring titillation and personality politics over democratic issues and development stories.
“The commercial imperative (of the press) does affect our democracy because we know the key imperative there is profit making and therefore you are going to sing to the tune of your advertisers,” said MMA policy head Prinola Govenden.
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- Comment on the Public Service Broadcasting Bill
In this videoclip, William Bird of Media Monitoring Africa speaks with Polity’s Amy Witherden on the controversial Public Service Broadcasting Bill, which was released for public comment in October 2009.
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- New deadline for broadcasting bill ‘cosmetic’
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Siphiwe Nyanda yesterday bowed to public pressure and extended the deadline for public comment on the controversial Public Service Broadcasting Bill to January 15, but media watchdog Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) called the extension “cosmetic”.
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- Campaign to get more time for broadcast bill
MEDIA Monitoring Africa, a media policy watchdog, yesterday launched a campaign on its website calling for the public to petition the director- general of the Department of Communications, Mamodupi Mohlala, to allow more time to comment on the controversial Public Service Broadcast Bill, which it says will fundamentally change broadcasting.
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