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Category: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity [REMOVE]
- Protecting human rights in crime coverage
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The 16 days of activism campaign against woman and child abuse began on the international day of elimination of violence against women on the 25th November. In preparation for this time, one could expect that media would be creating greater awareness of gender based violence and the social consequences thereof. However, the Daily Sun in their article on Monday 20 November 2006, page 3 not only does not address the issues, but seems to promote vigilantism. The story, entitled “THEY RAPED IN SA’S TOUGHEST TOWNSHIP … and they paid the price!“, prominently violates the rights of two separate parties.
- Revealing Race: an analysis of the coverage of race and xenophobia in the SA print media
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This report forms part of the broader “Revealing Race Project” of the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) funded by the Mott Foundation. The report reveals the results of the monitoring of a sample of Gauteng-based print media undertaken by the MMP from January to May 2006 on the representation of issues of race, ethnicity and xenophobia in the selected mediums.
- Coretta Scott King and the media: Martin’s wife
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In early February 2006, local newspapers carried news of the death of Coretta Scott King, the widow of American civil rights activist, Martin Luther King II. Most of the articles merely announced her death. Some papers, in particular, were unique for the angle they took in covering Scott King’s death. Only some media detaiedl Scott King’s life as an activist before she met Martin Luther King.
- e-tv: Violating the rights to privacy and dignity
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One of the central principles of journalism is the protection of the rights to dignity and privacy. The importance of sensitive coverage of those who are grieving, who have endured trauma, is enshrined in journalistic codes of conduct throughout the world. The commercial free-to-air channel, e-tv, has demonstrated some very concerning trends in media coverage over the last month.
- Race, Rugby and Everything Else
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While South Africa’s leading papers would have one believe that the South African media has come a long way in the struggle for unbiased reporting especially when it comes to race issues, the Geo Cronje debacle has showed us that there is still a lot of room for improvement…
- Showing Due Care
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The death of 43 people at a soccer match on Wednesday this week has, by and large, been dealt with with due sensitivity to those killed.
- The News in Black and White: An Investigation into Racial Stereotyping in the Media
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The methodology used in this study was deliberately chosen to achieve two main ends: first and foremost to reveal the extent to which racial stereotypes occur in the South African media. But secondly to act as a constructive critique of the media rather than pose a threat to its independence.
The monitoring revealed some interesting results which over the six week period suggested certain significant patterns of reporting. In many cases as with reporting of crime and of Africa, the negativity we have found associated with them seemed obvious and yet the racial element of many of these reports has needed to be recognised so that it can be challenged.
- Radio News Diversity Project
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Diversity in media content, especially that of news and information programmes is crucial. The media, as a primary source of news and information in our society does have a large role in influencing the political, social and cultural agenda’s of the country. A limited range of news and information necessarily limits the diversity of information available to the public who as voters and tax payers have the right to be informed in order to make decisions in their lives.
Since the IBA’s inception in 1994, the licensing of new community and private radio stations has been widely welcomed as an indicator of the greater diversity of information and entertainment available to listeners. In terms of their licence conditions all stations licensed by the IBA have had to provide regular news bulletins and information programmes as part of their line-up, and the expectation has been that this would result in a wider and more diverse range of news stories, sources and areas of reporting. By providing news and information, the IBA hoped to ensure that all radio stations served the public’s information needs. Thus the IBA, through the community licences it issued attempted to allow as diverse a range of radio stations as possible, with the aim that these would provide a varied and valuable source of information and entertainment to the South African public.
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