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- Media Coverage of Children during Youth Month
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Considering Youth Month provides ample opportunity to highlight issues around children, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) wished to assess whether this was happening in South African media and if the coverage either violated or enhanced human rights of the children concerned.
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- Angle on AIDS
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WORLD AIDS DAY :
DOES THE MEDIA HAVE REASON TO CELEBRATE?Tune in to MEDIA @ SAfm this Sunday from 10am as we showcase exclusive audio from educational radio projects in Africa and assess the media’s coverage of HIV/ AIDS in 2007.
We’ll also hear a panel of local and international experts suggesting
THE MEDIA’S ANGLE ON AIDS FOR 2008
MEDIA @ SAfm, 10am, Sunday 2 December 2007
Another in the radio conference series by the Media Monitoring Project, Open Society Foundation and SAfm.
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- The Star sees children as entrepreneurs
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Without doubt the article, “Children club starts anti-crime campaign” which appeared in The Star., (30/11/2007, p.5) receives the glad rating because of how it reports on children. It presents children as responsible citizens who take charge of forming a campaign whose aim is to help heal Soweto of crime. The article challenges the common portrayal of children as victims of crime, who are also vulnerable and in need of protection. It does this by showing children, instead, as people who are doing something to tackle it.
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- Children shown as responsible citizens
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Without doubt the article, “Children club starts anti-crime campaign” which appeared in The Star (30/11/2007, p.5) receives the glad rating because of how it reports on children. It presents children as responsible citizens who take charge of forming a campaign whose aim is to help heal Soweto of crime. The article challenges the common portrayal of children as victims of crime, who are also vulnerable and in need of protection. It does this by showing children, instead, as people who are doing something to tackle it.
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- Media and the 16 Days Campaign 2006
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The coverage of The 16 Days Campaign in Gauteng media coverage, including e-tv and SABC 3 prime time news, was reasonable good in most aspects. Some improvements could be made in terms of reporting on woman and child abuse.
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- The ethics of 16 Days Media coverage
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During 2006 the Media Monitoring Project analysed coverage of the 16 days campaign to examine whether media upheld generally accepted media ethical principles. The findings show that, in covering the Campaign stories, the media most commonly violates the principle to do no harm, frequently by identifying the victim and exposing them to potential further abuse and victimisation.
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- Refugees and gender
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South Africa was the main destination, worldwide, for new asylum-seekers in 2006, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It is surprising then, the lack of attention that World Refugee Day and its associated gender issues got from the South African media.
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- Violence in the media
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IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS!
Join the Media Monitoring Project, in conjunction with Open Society Foundation and SAfm for an interrogation of violence and abuse in the media…
Has violence become the lowest common denominator of mainstream media?
Listen to this prorgamme as our panel of local and international experts debate the impact of the print and programming we are regularly exposed to.
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- An initiative that shows pupils and schools achieving excellence
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The Times is displaying great innovation in providing a conduit for schools and pupils to share their positive experiences. In the series of “My School Project” articles (2007), The Times regularly gives schools, education programmes and pupils the opportunity to share their stories, highlighting the achievements of young people and their capacity to excel and effect positive change. The Times should be commended for taking this approach.
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- Religion in the media: all bad news?
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Tune in to MEDIA @ SAfm this Sunday morning for a critical analysis of the media’s coverage of religious beliefs. A panel of local and international experts will unpack key issues in mainstream and religious broadcasting. We’ll also review how religions are adapting to new media technologies to spread their messages to the youth.
Is the media contributing to a greater understanding of diverse religious beliefs?
Do religions with money get more exposure?
To what degree do the media feed misconceptions about faiths
Does religion hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons?
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