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- Women’s Day 2004 - Summary
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The MMP assessed a number of print and broadcast media during the week preceding National Women’s Day, on the day itself and on the 10th of August 2004.
Top Three for 2004:
- Mail & Guardian
- This Day
- Sunday Times
Despite being a weekly paper and therefore only having one edition in which to respond to the challenge, the Mail & Guardian managed to out-perform all of the other media monitored during the period. Not only were numerous items devoted to women featured in the Mail & Guardian, but the medium also included women as a central focus of its news agenda. This meant that the Mail & Guardian mainstreamed women in their paper, including female journalists, sources, female perspectives, diverse images of women, famous and ordinary women as authors and contributors. The Mail & Guardian‘s ability to determine its own news agenda ensured that the medium generated meaningful discussions about women’s rights and issues, instead of just event-based reporting on some of the functions held in commemoration of National Women’s Day.
- Making their mark: Coverage of the 2004 elections
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MMP monitored the South African national elections in 2004 to determine whether the media fulfilled their obligations to cover the elections in a free, fair, balanced and informative manner. Particular attention was given to special issues, including gender, poverty and HIV/AIDS. The Star topped our elections top 10, read the report to find out why.
- Putting Children First – Happy Sindane coverage
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The last few days have seen extensive coverage across all media of a white boy, Happy Sindane, who told police that he had been abducted by a domestic worker when he was 6 years old.
- SABC licence amendment submission
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The application for the SABC’s licence amendment, while clearly identified as such, appears rather to be an extensive public relations exercise. While ostensibly geared towards the issue of the mandated amendments in licence conditions required by the authority now that the broadcaster has separated into commercial and public service channels, discussions surrounding the actual licence amendment accounts for little more than 20 pages of the 127 page submission.
- Children’s bill submission
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This submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Social Development discussed Children’s Bill.
- National Women’s Day Media Challenge 2004
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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.
- Reporting Rape: Ethics, Gender and Human Rights
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This article is a response to news dominated this last week by the story of the alleged rape of a South African woman by a South African judge.
- Double Humiliation: repeat violation of child’s rights
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On 29 October, MMP issued an update addressing the issue of inappropriate identification of a child. In an incident last week members of the media again identified a child who has been abused and traumatised, and has also identified children who may be facing criminal charges.
- Mirror of abuse
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29 October 2003 - Despite the extra protection afforded to children in South Africa by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (to which South Africa is a signatory), the Constitution, and various pieces of legislation, members of the media continue to violate the rights of children by identifying them when involved in criminal proceedings or identifying children who have been abused or are in trauma.
- Race, Rugby and Everything Else
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While South Africa’s leading papers would have one believe that the South African media has come a long way in the struggle for unbiased reporting especially when it comes to race issues, the Geo Cronje debacle has showed us that there is still a lot of room for improvement…
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