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- The Sunday Times dedicates an edition to wonderful women.
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The Sunday Times dedicates its edition on the 23rd of May 2010 to both powerful and ordinary women doing great work for the economy and in their communities.
- Saturday Star’s readers informed about trafficking
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The article published by Saturday Star, “2010 spurs human trafficking fear” (03/04/2010 p. 8) is one to be glad about. This article exposed common locations of human trafficking in South Africa and how children will be affected by this crime. It also explained human trafficking and its implications to the reader.
- City Press features female prisoners’ children
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“Liberating babies from jail”, City Press (25/04/2010, p. 27) is one to be glad about. This article, written by Chris Makhaye took a positive angle on children who live with their mothers in prison and how they should be liberated, as the headline suggests.
- The Times praises child hero
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The front-page article “Girl, 11, saves friends from deadly blaze” published in The Times (10/02/2010) is about an 11 year-old girl who saved a number of fellow orphans from a blazing building. The story by Teneshia Naidoo is one to be glad of.
- Children’s Views Not in the News: Portrayal of Children in South African Print Media 2009
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Monitoring conducted by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in 2003 as part of the Empowering Children & the Media (ECM) strategy showed that only 6% of all news included children. The latest data to emerge from the ECM reveals that representation of children has improved, marginally, to 8.4% of all news monitored in 2009. The monitoring shows that not only are children’s issues frequently sidelined, but un-careful and unethical reporting often leads to further violations of their rights.
- Women? What women?! - Media contributes to the disempowerment of women
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It is clear that issues around gender equality, women’s poverty and health are of primary importance to South Africa. Women form a greater proportion of South Africa’s population and a greater proportion of the rural population (which is also the most poorly serviced), head a greater number of households (which are more likely to be poor and earn less than male-headed households), are affected by HIV/Aids the most, and suffer alarming levels of gender-based violence. MMA’s monitoring demonstrates that this has not been reflected in media’s election coverage, when these issues should come to the forefront of many (if not the greater majority of) reports.
- “No big deal” Poverty, Service Delivery and Election Coverage: Election Report for week ending 3 Apr
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This week MMA looks at key topics of elections stories. The results of the topics of elections coverage present a number of issues to discuss. For this report however, we will build on the prior week’s report “Is the media campaigning for the ANC and COPE?”, and focus on the level of attention devoted to the topics of manifestos, campaigning, poverty and service delivery.
This report addresses the results of media monitoring conducted from 13/03/09 until 01/04/2009. According to the monitoring results, it would appear that media consider simplistic coverage of campaign activities and political conflict to be more important than engaging parties and the public over the content of party manifestos, and how parties believe such major issues as poverty and service delivery should and can be addressed.
- Election coverage 6 March 2009 - ANC the talk of the provinces
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Media Monitoring Africa has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news, as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings.
- Election coverage 25 February 2009 - Malemaphilia or otherwise?
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Media Monitoring Africa has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily reports on media coverage of election news[1], weekly reports as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings.
Top stories for Wednesday the 25 February are:
- Guinea pigs and the frantic search for the AIDS vaccine gel
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The coverage of Microbicide trails in 2007 the following findings showed the following patterns:
- The stories were afforded significant prominence in some of the newspapers monitored.
- Just over a quarter of the content items dramatised the issues. This included using phrases such as “frantic search”, describing the volunteers as “desperate” or “pleading”, the use of exclamation marks, different font sizes and capitals to emphasise controversy, and the use of unnamed sources who make allegations that are not substantiated in the items monitored;
- Most content items analysed show a clear bias either in favour of the HIV and AIDS researchers, or against the researchers.
- In contrast, the volunteers are treated ambivalently and even in a demeaning way in several content items.
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