Haven't been able to confirm this with anyone from the Viacom side, but it appears that an Afrikaburns video was pulled from Youtube by channel executives who will all probably turn out to own the rights to the event! That's because Afrika Burns has already sold out to corporate interests and do...
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Single-source Digital Journalism, electronic reporting in the Heart 104.9 case
This is a longer version of the edited letter published by the Mail & Guardian Online. Dear Ed, I must protest at the single-source journalism and biased reporting carried in several reports littered with inaccuracies that graced the Online Edition of the Mail & Guardian (Writer in court over all...
Radio is my Bomb — letter to Amatomu
Dear Amatomu,Since there is no contact for Amatomu, I am writing this knowing that there is very little likelihood a real human being will answer. Since the age of robots and people like Mathew Buckland, Vinc Mayer and Riaan Wolmeraans, I have had to deal with what Paulina Borsook calls "Cybersel...
Radio Bomber: “Black Magician” NOT THE CAUSE OF MY OUTBURST!
CONTRARY to news reports that a “black magician” is behind the outburst which resulted in my arrest ‘on charges of intimidation”, and that my grievance revolves solely around the rejection of a story about a black musician by a news editor, the canard of false reports which started out at Media24...
Flagellomania
Society has come a long way since 1899 when the Edinburgh Society of Scotswomen demanded the flogging of men who commit sexual assault. Now women are demanding an end to spanking. The latest round of South Africa's controversial "spanking clause" in a law that would ban parents from using any cor...
Fraud across the board, as SA press starts to look bad
Well there you have it, editors are getting arrested for revealing Dr Beetroot's medical records, and I can't say I blame her for getting upset. Come on, there are boundaries, even in freedom of expression — privacy and human decency has to be weighed against the need for transparency and open de...