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Category: Media Freedom and Performance [REMOVE]
- Election coverage 15 April 2009 - Sports and xenophobia
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Election coverage for Wednesday 15 April 2009 included a variety of different stories. However, the most prominent were stories about South African’s voting overseas. Although this was covered far more prominently on television, we are likely to see more coverage in the press tomorrow. An innovative elections story in The Star was tainted with xenophobic statements from a resident in an area recently affected by xenophobic violence. The statements were not contradicted.
- 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.
- Election coverage 8 April 2009 - Zikalala and confusing stories
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Election coverage for Wednesday 8 April continued to be about the NPA’s announcement on the dropping of charges against Jacob Zuma, the reaction from other political parties, and what it means for the country. A substantial amount of the news in the newspapers was devoted to this. This was less so for television news. There were also a number of election stories which would confuse audience members, in various media. A comment by the ANC over the renewal of the contract of SABC news manager was also prominently covered. There were also a number of confusing election stories in various media.
- Election coverage 7 April 2009 - NPA/Zuma, media takes a stand for the people
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Election coverage for Tuesday 7th April was overwhelmingly focused on the NPA’s decision to drop the charges against Jacob Zuma and the reaction from various people. Not only were these stories prominently covered, but in most newspapers, they filled a majority of news coverage (as opposed to sport, entertainment or business). The exception to this pattern was the Daily Sun, who still gave unprecedented coverage to this political story as election stories have not been widely covered in the paper.
- Is media campaigning for ANC and COPE?: Election Report for week ending 28 March 2009
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While it is reasonable to expect the ANC as the ruling party to receive greater attention in news coverage, information that is useful to citizens for enabling informed participation has been few and far between. The coverage has in fact often appeared as an extension of Political Advertisements, and should therefore be far more limited in number and extent. This argument can also be extended to the attention received by other parties, with coverage exhibiting a bias towards the new party Cope at the expense of other more established parties.
- Election coverage 25 March 2009 - rethinking the media tribunal
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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) 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.
- Media perpetuates child-porn in name of exposing perpetrators
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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) strongly condemns the decision of many media outlets to reproduce images of child pornography in the process of exposing the perpetrator and a failing justice system. SABC 3’s Special Assignment (06/01/09, 21:30), The Times (08/01/09, p. 3), and The Citizen (08/01/09, p. 3) all included images of child pornography in their reports on a social grants officer with high political affiliations sexually abusing minors.
- Save our SABC pamphlet
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Save our SABC is a civil society campaign that wants a review of all government laws and policies to ensure the SABC is more accountable to us – listeners and viewers.
- Seeing dead people: Exploring visuals of dead bodies in the media
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Violent events are an every day feature for the media in South Africa. However, media can report on these events in various ways. The Media Monitoring Project explores ethical considerations which should guide the use visuals to report on horrific events. In particular, this update will be looking at visuals used of dead bodies. Alternative representations of the dead are then suggested.
- Save our SABC Submission
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MMP, together with other civil society organisations have formed a coalition in order to restoring the credibility, protecting the independence and promoting best practice principles of public broadcasting. View the submissions to the draft broadcast amendment bill.
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