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Category: Media Freedom and Performance [REMOVE]
- 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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- 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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- Daily Sun angry at the practice of ‘Ukuthwala’
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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is GLAD that Daily Sun’s editorial “Ukuthwala is an evil that must be ended” (15/11/2010, p. 8) scrutinised this children’s and gender rights abuse from multiple angles.
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- Daily Sun accesses young football star.
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“Reaching for the stars!” (Daily Sun, 12/11/2010, p.42) receives a GLAD from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for portraying a child in a positive light and affording him the opportunity to express himself.
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- Gratuitous images of children not in their best interest
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Images of children that failed to uphold their rights to privacy and dignity and were clearly not in their best interests were published alongside Daily Sun’s “Raw bones fur lunch!” (12/11/2010, p. 3) and Beeld’s “Baba was op skoot toe motor hulle tref” (10/11/2010 p.1 & p.5)
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- Presentation to Communication Ministry’s Public Hearings on the Public Service Broadcasting Bill
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Media Monitoring Africa raised concerns about elements of the draft Public Service Broadcasting Bill during the Communication Ministry’s public hearings.
MMA argues that the Bill in its current form will give the Minister too much power and won’t solve the problems dogging SABC.
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- The Citizen discredits its own efforts to protect a rape victim
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The Citizen undermined its own efforts to protect the identity of a child rape victim by indirectly identifying her. As a result it gets a Mad from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA).
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