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- City Press commended for promoting children’s welfare
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The article in City Press, “How to cope with stress of matric exams” (21/10/07, p. 39) is one to be glad of, and should be highly commended. It brings attention to and promotes the interests of children, accesses expert sources, includes children’s contributions, and adopts a responsible approach to children’s welfare.
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- Article on failed government programmes on children
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The article “Pupils starve as feeding programme collapses” that featured in City Press (7/10/07, p.12), is a reason to be glad, because it draws attention to the way in which the failure of Government in implementing the feeding scheme impacts on children’s wellbeing. The highlighting of this failure promotes the interests and rights of children.
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- Making media history
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In celebration of Heritage Day
The Media Monitoring Project and Open Society Foundation in conjunction with SAfm present
MAKING MEDIA HISTORY
A one hour radio special reflecting on key media moments in South Africa’s history followed by a roundtable debate on our media heritage.
Do we have media traditions we can be proud of? And if so, are the media doing them justice?
Listen to the programme as a panel of media professionals evaluate journalistic traditions established in the past but practiced in the context of South Africa today.
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- Issues on safety in schools
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24/09/2007, 3.48 PM
The article “Pupils take sides in aftermath of tragic KES stabbing”, by Angelique Serrao and Alex Eliseev in The Star (20/09/07, p.3) is one to be glad about because it focuses on the much publicized issue of violence in schools and opens it up to wider discussion.
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- Women’s Day 2007: Prominent women dominate newspapers
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In this update, we look at the South African media’s coverage of women on National Women’s Day, and the day before and after in the daily print. News media with weekly publications were investigated the week before and after the commemoration of the event. This was monitored by the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) in line with its media challenge for 2007. The investigation revealed that newspaper coverage around Women’s Day concentrated on prominent women, the dismissal of the Deputy Health Minister and gender-based violence.
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- Educating readers about statutory rape
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18/09/2007, 4.04 PM
The article “Teen impregnated by father’s best friend”, by Surentha Govender, which appeared in the Sunday Times (p.6) on 16 September 2007, provides a number of reasons to be glad. The main reasons that this article is one that we should be glad about are that it provides a context to the story; it provides very useful information regarding the issue of statutory rape; it dispels one of the common myths around sexual assault; and it introduces a debate around punishment of this type of crime.
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- Media Monitoring: A Necessary Part for a Vibrant Media
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This article written by MMP’s director, William Bird, for the Open Society Institute of Southern Africa, presents an argument for the power of media monitoring, articulated by Deputy President Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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- Rwanda: a question of credibility and quality
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There is no doubt that media freedom is essential for a functioning democracy, but it can be extremely difficult to realise and protect in a country where media have been used as a key tool of repression. Rwanda’s recent violent history provides a powerful argument for media monitoring.
This article by William Bird and Sandra Roberts was published in the Rhodes Journalism Review.
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- Article highlightes issues in rural areas
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An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about.
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- highlighting issues in rural area
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An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about.
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