What is Journalism? "The answer to that question was once easy" wrote the Christian Science Monitor. "Until the Internet, journalists were typically attached to an established organization that could afford to own and run a newspaper, magazine, radio or TV station, TV network, or cable news outle...

South Africa's proposed Protection of Information Bill leaves a lot to be desired. Not only is it draconian and regressive but it flies in the face of our constitution and an important debate occurring around the world right now. In the aftermath of the financial meltdown, Iceland, one of the wor...

Medialternatives celebrates five years of online publishing with alternative perspectives by moving to a new address. Please update your reader and subscribe http://medialternatives.blogetery.com Still one of the best reads from South Africa!!!

TWO issues impacting on the constitutional guarantee of press freedom have emerged over the past weeks. The first relates to the ability of the media to report about and to access information held by the state, and the second involves the right of the public to demand fairness and accuracy in rep...

This is my current Middle East Peace Plan. Show me yours? FLAGS Flag One Flag Two MAPS SEE http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/israel-is-a-three-state-solution-possible/

During the dark days of apartheid Robbie inspired us to cross the barricades. Without his music, the struggle for freedom would have been bleak indeed. If it were not for Robbie many would not have dared to venture out of the cloister and sanctuary of white suburbia, while those suffering the bru...