Resources - Media Analysis
Media Monitoring Africa releases periodic media analysis pieces looking at current issues in the media though a human rights lens.
- 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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- 16 Days of Reporting Child Abuse: 16 days campaign 2004
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The 16 Days Campaign presents a window of opportunity for the South African media to focus on and engage with the issues of child abuse in a meaningful way.
The 25th of November 2004 marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign: No Violence Against Women and Children. The campaign aims to raise issues of abuse of women and children, to not only reflect on what happens in society but also how abuse is represented in the media. The 16 Days Campaign presents a window of opportunity for the South African media to focus on and engage with the issues of abuse in a meaningful way.
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- The Good News About Gender-based Violence
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Halfway through the 16 Days campaign, the comparison in coverage over the last seven years offers some startling findings; most of which are positive.
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- Women’s Day 2004 - Summary
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The MMP assessed a number of print and broadcast media during the week preceding National Women’s Day, on the day itself and on the 10th of August 2004.
Top Three for 2004:
- Mail & Guardian
- This Day
- Sunday Times
Despite being a weekly paper and therefore only having one edition in which to respond to the challenge, the Mail & Guardian managed to out-perform all of the other media monitored during the period. Not only were numerous items devoted to women featured in the Mail & Guardian, but the medium also included women as a central focus of its news agenda. This meant that the Mail & Guardian mainstreamed women in their paper, including female journalists, sources, female perspectives, diverse images of women, famous and ordinary women as authors and contributors. The Mail & Guardian‘s ability to determine its own news agenda ensured that the medium generated meaningful discussions about women’s rights and issues, instead of just event-based reporting on some of the functions held in commemoration of National Women’s Day.
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- Putting Children First – Happy Sindane coverage
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The last few days have seen extensive coverage across all media of a white boy, Happy Sindane, who told police that he had been abducted by a domestic worker when he was 6 years old.
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- National Women’s Day Media Challenge 2004
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The MMP’s challenge is for the media to mainstream women on National Women’s Day. Instead of media merely concentrating on so called “women’s issues” and only on the celebrations that are set to take place on the 9th of August, the MMP challenges the media to fill their papers, radio broadcasts, television schedules and news programmes with women.
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- Reporting Rape: Ethics, Gender and Human Rights
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This article is a response to news dominated this last week by the story of the alleged rape of a South African woman by a South African judge.
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- Double Humiliation: repeat violation of child’s rights
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On 29 October, MMP issued an update addressing the issue of inappropriate identification of a child. In an incident last week members of the media again identified a child who has been abused and traumatised, and has also identified children who may be facing criminal charges.
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- Mirror of abuse
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29 October 2003 - Despite the extra protection afforded to children in South Africa by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (to which South Africa is a signatory), the Constitution, and various pieces of legislation, members of the media continue to violate the rights of children by identifying them when involved in criminal proceedings or identifying children who have been abused or are in trauma.
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- 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…
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