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Category: Media Freedom and Performance [REMOVE]
- Media and the reporting of the budget speech
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The budget speech attracts much media attention every year. This year was no different. When reporting on the budget speech, it is expected that the media ‘translate’ the implications for their readers. In this respect the reports on the speech were not entirely successful.
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- The Media and Crime
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Print and broadcast media should that first and foremost provide viewers, listeners and readers with information about the world that is fair, balanced and accurate. It is equally as important however, for the media to challenge and interrogate government performance on fundamental issues including poverty, HIV/AIDS and the safety and security situation. These principles have seemingly been in conflict in recent crime coverage.
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- Upsurge of women who kill for money?
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The coverage surrounding the ongoing court case over the death of Netshisaulu Avhatakali and the representation of his wife as a “black widow” murderer typifies recent coverage on women involved in their husband’s deaths. The coverage of this court case brought to light other cases, in which women were suspects in the killings of their husbands. It is interesting to note the bias in partner killing reports, where women kill their husbands for financial gain, whilst men kill their intimate partners out of an irrational rage. Both these examples exclude systemic physical and emotional abuse and, in so doing, create the impression that these events are somehow insulated from broader social problems.
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- Media Monitoring in Rwanda
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The Rwandan Media Monitoring Project was established by the High Council of the Press in 2003 to monitor media coverage of that year’s elections in Rwanda. The desire to monitor the media was stimulated by pending presidential and parliamentary elections and the High Council of the Press’ mission of ensuring that political parties and associations of political interest equitably share airtime in the public media. The High Council of the Press also wished to closely monitor professionalism in the Rwandan media with regard to respect of the media law and the code of ethics.
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- Films and Publications Amendment Bill Submission
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The Films and Publications Amendment Bill in the current form presents a threat to press freedom in South Africa.
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- Whose blacklist is it anyway?
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In a constitutional democracy like the South African, it is commonly accepted and entirely uncontroversial to assert the central role allocated to an independent public service broadcaster in facilitating informed public debate based on the central tenets, as stated in the SABC Charter, of free speech and journalistic and programming independence. However, as witnessed by recent public debate, the SABC is currently being challenged on the extent to which its editorial policy remains in compliance with these basic democratic principles.
In this context, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP), an independent media monitoring organisation which has been monitoring the media since 1993, sees its role as to assess the merits of these claims. As an independent organisation of civil society, the MMP remains independent of all parties and undertakes evaluations of compliance with constitutional principles and professional media practices. In this sense the MMP’s aim is to secure the primacy of the constitution, which constitutes the MMP’s only substantive bias.
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- Presentation to ICASA about the SABC licence amendment application
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MMP’s presentation to Independent Communications Authority of South Africa about the SABC Licence Amendment Application.
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- Whose Master’s Voice? A Comparison of SABC 3 and e-tv News
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The SABC, in particular, its adherence to its public service mandate has been the subject of considerable discussion. Recent debates in media circles have focused on the perceived close relationship between the SABC and the ANC government.
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- Taking a look at sub judice: Leigh Matthews coverage
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For the Greater Good: Law or Ethics?
The publication of an alleged confession by Donovan Moodley, to the kidnap and murder of Leigh Matthews, by the You magazine, was problematic for a number of reasons, both legal and ethical.
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- Victims of War or Victims of the Media
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As the conflict in Iraq reaches new stages, similarly so does the coverage as provided by the news media. Increasingly newspapers are carrying more and more graphic images of dead bodies and injured people.
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