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- January 2011: The month of multiple Children’s Rights Violations by SA Print Media
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During the week 17th - 21st there were so many articles deserving of a MAD that MMA felt compelled to write MEGA MAD - citing articles in The Citizen, Daily Sun, Mail & Guardian, The New Age, Sowetan and The Star for violating children’s rights.
This analysis has been endorsed by Childline and the Centre for Child Law
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- Mail & Guardian reminds us of the issues facing teenagers
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“Mean girls get meaner online,” (Mail & Guardian, 21/01/2010, p.23) was selected as a Glad for raising awareness of cyberbullying and the impact it has on children.
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- Dismal reporting on “back to school”
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Sowetan’s “back to school” coverage identified under-age drinkers and girls accused of spending more time “titivating” themselves than studying, earning the newspaper its second MAD of 2011.
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- Horrific start to the year for Daily Sun
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Daily Sun is South Africa’s biggest selling National newspaper and last year it came third in MMA’s ratings for best practice reporting on children. However rather than putting its best foot forward for 2011, Daily Sun has gotten off to an abysmal start.
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- Sowetan makes obvious the identity of an actor accused of raping his daughter
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The identity of an actor accused of sexually assaulting his four-year-old daughter was indirectly revealed in an article published by Sowetan, further leading to the indirect identification of the child - a victim to the alleged crime.
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- City Press explores children’s thoughts on sex, virginity and pornography
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City Press gets a GLAD for examining the thorny issue of teen sexuality and for giving a voice to children while protecting their identities.
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- Daily Sun identifies a child who witnessed her mother’s murder
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Daily Sun gets a MAD from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for indentifying a two year old girl who saw mother being killed.
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- Poor choice in pictures undermines excellent journalism in The Star
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Twice in two months The Star undermined superb quality journalism by publishing an image of identifiable vulnerable children alongside it. This merits a MAD.
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- Children’s Views not in the News; Portrayal of Children in South African Print Media 2010
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MMA has been monitoring and analysing print media’s performance, in terms of how it reports on children, since 2003. This is its fourth report on the topic, and since 2003 the percentage of articles featuring children has doubled.
Author and MMA’s Specialised Children’s Monitoring Project Coordinator Ronell Singh says that “while we are seeing gradual progress being made in how the media reports on children, there is still plenty of room for improvement – look at how few features or in-depth analysis articles deal with children for example – just 4%. It is these longer and more in depth articles that can better explore children’s issues and put them on the agenda, and yet, even since last year, we are seeing children appearing in fewer of these articles instead of more.”
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- Children tackle the editors at Redi’s Round Table
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The absence of children in SA’s press code, the lack of children’s voices in reporting and a poor showing of children in positive roles in media - these were the issues child media monitors put to senior journalists and editors on the Redi Tlhabi show.
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