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- City Press reveals shocking school conditions but fails to give children a voice
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City Press highlights the shocking conditions endured by children in schools in Eastern Cape, but ignores what they have to say.
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- Daily Sun reporting could encourage underage driving
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Mad about Daily Sun’s article “He’s the Spin King” (27/09/2010 p.3) which glorifies a child who performed dangerous driving stunts.
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- Saturday Star shines the spotlight on the impact of S.A’s health system on its children.
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Saturday Star gets a Glad for highlighting the effect of South Africa’s “deteriorating” public healthcare system on its children.
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- MAD about Mama Angel identifying vulnerable children.
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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) notes with concern that twice in the last month Sowetan’s Mama Angel has printed images of children where it was clearly not in the children’s best interests to do so. As a result MMA is giving Mama Angel a MAD.
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- Sowetan indirectly identifies alleged child rape victims and violates children’s rights.
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Sowetan’s article “Bail denied to rape suspect of 7-year-old” (08/09/2010, p.6) gets a SUPER MAD from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for violating the rights of two children.
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- Newspapers provide examples of both best and worst practice in reporting child abuse.
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Best and worst practice in reporting on allegations of child abuse can be found in newspapers published on Wednesday the 22nd September 2010.
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- Daily Sun’s article on chess champion shines a light on a child’s success and challenges stereotypes
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Daily Sun gets a Glad for its article “Chess princess is now a master!” ( 31/08/2010. p.8) for a positive article about the achievements of 13-year-old chess champion Tshepang Tlala.
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- Media insensitive to crash victims
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The deaths of ten school children after a minibus taxi crashed into a train was widely reported in the news for a number of weeks. However, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) regrets that many news outlets covering the story have earned MADs for failing to uphold the rights of the child victims and their families.
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- The Times identifies a child when it is not in his best interest
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The article “High school in racism drama” published in The Times (03/08/2010p.7) is one to be mad about. It reported on an alleged theft case at a school where racism has occurred. In this story a child, who was accused of the crime, was identified.
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- City Press gives children a voice to challenge xenophobic attitudes
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City Press gets a glad for its article “Learning in Peace” (08/08/2010, p. 14) about a school that works to ensure there’s no xenophobia in its classrooms.
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