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- MMA Presentation to the Press Freedom Commission
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This presentation was made by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) to the Press Freedom Commission (PFC) public hearings (31 January 2012). In this presentation MMA highlights its support for a more independent regulation. the presentation also focused on the quality and ethical practice of Print Media
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- Teenage pregnancy is more than a teenage issue, the M&G reveals
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Rates of teenage pregnancy in South Africa are among the highest in the world, yet the reasons for this problem are often misunderstood and riddled with myths and stereotypes about teenage girls. However, the Mail & Guardian, health section (04/10/2011, p1) article ‘Teenage moms learn the hard way’ by Katherine Child points to deep underlying social problems. The article reveals that teenage pregnancy results from a complex set of varied and interrelated factors, largely associated with the social conditions under which children grow up. The article also unearths and debunks myths surrounding contraceptives and child grants being blamed for high rates of teenage pregnancy in South Africa. For these and other reasons discussed below, the article deserves a Glad1.
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- A Tangled Web: Human Trafficking, Child Protection & the Media
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As a metaphor, a web does nicely to describe human trafficking: a thing with many threads, sticky, dangerous, and unseen by victims. The sticky threads each different yet inseparable, certainly not linear, clean, neat and easily spotted…well unless you’re the spider that is.
What do we know about human trafficking? What should we know about it? What are we being told by the media? What is the media missing?
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- Submission to ICASA on the Draft Digital Terrestrial Television Regulations
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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA, formerly the Media Monitoring Project) welcomes the
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opportunity to make a submission to the Independent Communications Authority of South
Africa (ICASA) on the Draft Digital Terrestrial Television Regulations – 10 November 2011.
- Submission to the Press Freedom Commission: regulation of print media
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Media Monitoring Africa responded to a call for submission by the Press Freedom Commission (PFC) (15 December 2011) on the Regulation of Print Media in South Africa.
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MMA supports more independent self regulation. By definition self regulation refers to a peer review system operating within a set of self- imposed rules by the media. It consists of representatives from the media profession passing judgement of complicated matters of journalistic reporting using a Journalistic Code of Ethics which is applied in determining the final ruling , and benchmarking the generally accepted norms and standards.
- Daily Sun stages photo of four month-old among rocks
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Few would condone lying a four-month old child in sand to pose for a news photograph. Yet, this is what Daily Sun seemingly did for a front cover picture recently. The article accompanying the picture, “Baby boy dumped in veld!” (04/10/2011, p. 1, 3) and the follow-up story “Sunpower shames bad mum!” (05/01/2011, p. 2), further abuses an abandoned baby boy and stigmatises a seemingly desperate mother.
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- Saturday Star shows how pre-schoolers are particularly vulnerable
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The article “Starving before school-going age” (Saturday Star, 01/10/2011, p.11) by Sheree Bega was selected as a GLAD for focusing on a concerning issue relevant to children of pre-school going age.
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- Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory Expresses Concern with the Protection of State Information Bill
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The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has expressed its concern with the Protection of State Information Bill which will be passed by the National Assembly today. The Centre has as a result released a press statement analysing the Bill’s remaining flaws.
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- Somalia in Media Images: Battling Compassion Fatigue
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Images of emaciated children have recently made their way into the media following the widely reported famine in Somalia. Media Monitoring Africa conducted an in-depth analysis into the visual portrayal of the famine and the underlying messages.
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- Editorial Guidelines and Principles on Reporting on Children in the Media
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Media Monitoring Africa launched a new set of Editorial Guidelines and Principles on Reporting on Children in the Media on 19 October 2011 which also saw the commemoration of Black Wednesday and the 15th birthday celebrations for the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF).
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