Adorned with photographs of children playing soccer, the article “Soccer festival pulls in the kids” (The Star, 29/09/08, p. 5), failed in all respects to present children’s views and opinions on an […]...
Sowetan is brought to task by the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) for poor reporting on a crime against a child. “’Racist’ teacher assaults pupil” (25/09/08, p.8) fails on all accounts to […]...
School violence acts like canaries in a gold mine; it shows us that something is wrong with our society, and for this reason it is newsworthy. Similar too, the way […]...
A story on corporal punishment in a primary school in Sebokeng was covered by several newspapers. Sowetan (“Pupils not safe at school”, 29/07/08, p. 1 & 4) and Daily Sun (“Teacher’s cruel punishment”, 29/07/08, […]...
Particular care needs to be taken in coverage of children who are perpetrators of crime as children are protected by the law and should be protected by ethical codes within […]...
Sowetan’s article “Cops rescue children from farm” (27/05/08, p. 4) about children who were allegedly recruited to work at a bean farm in Mpumalanga over the March school holidays is one to […]...
The story about an abandoned baby finding a happy home with the police officer that found her is a happy one. However, the Beeld’s coverage of this story (“’Emmer’-baba wettig ma […]...
The article “Evil steals our boys” (Daily Sun, 11/04/2008, p. 5) about thirty boys from a school in the Northern Cape, which Daily Sun claims are possessed by the devil, is an […]...
On the 30 March 2008, the Sunday Sun printed a story about a man convicted for the rape of his wife (“Husband gets 9 years for assaulting, raping wife” p.15)[1]. […]...