June 08, 2018

Editorial: We need to talk about the EFF’s wild claims

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Mail and Guardian, 08 Jun 2018

As Eusebius McKaiser points out in the Mail & Guardian this week, the EFF has been treated without much critical analysis since the party was voted into Parliament in 2014.  And research from Media Monitoring Africa has shown that the party does receive a disproportionate amount of media coverage relative to its share of the vote. That’s, of course, thanks to its uncanny ability to stir up controversy and manipulate the news agenda.

Read the full article.