The Daily Sun articles “Young mum dumps baby under bed!” and “’Moses’ in the bucket found in drain!” (12/04/2011, p. 7) violated the rights of the children involved in both stories. The first article reported on […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is concerned about the poor portrayal of a child in a story published by Daily Sun, entitled “Fire destroyed my son’s face” (05/04/2011, p.5) and the accompanying picture. The […]...
Two articles “[XXXX*]’s son in paternity row” (Saturday Star, 19/03/2011, p.3) and “Not so fast, [XXXX*]!” (Sunday World, 03/04/2011, p.6) may well be interesting to the public but are certainly not in the public […]...
“Gunned down in his yard” (Sowetan, 14/03/2011, p.2) neglected the rights of a 17-year-old child witness by naming him. The article further indirectly identified the child by naming the school he […]...
Two articles by The New Age, “Big hearts for little people who need love” (01/03/2011, p.6) and“Pupil beatings continue in defiance of law” (31/03/2011, p.6) were selected for a MAD for identifying children when […]...
“Ashes to Ashes for teenager,” (Daily Sun, 22/02/2011, p.4) was selected as a MAD for insensitive reporting that also identified a 16-year-old girl who had gone through three very traumatic experiences. […]...
“Love made him kill” (Daily Sun, 15/02/2011, p.12) was unfortunately a lesson on how NOT to report on a child who has witnessed a crime. Daily Sun named a child witness to a […]...
Three articles entitled “School is cool” (Daily Sun, 10/02/2011 p.2), “Free sanitary towels for poor pupils will improve school attendance” (The New Age, 07/02/2011 p.24) and “Rural girls get help for their periods blues” (The New […]...
Every Monday morning Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) staff meets to discuss and analyse examples of the best and worst media coverage of children. Each week we select one example of […]...