Dear Messrs Brand, Malherbe and Jansen Re: Media24's threats against your former employee, David Lewis We have been dismayed that Media24 has sought to muzzle one of your former employees, David Lewis, with threats of a defamation suit and of being interdicted by yourselves. Mr Lewis had been a...
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Media24 balks as support for the corporation’s gagging of community journalist waivers.
Media24 appear to have balked at the idea of gagging me, and their threat of a defamation suit is precisely that, a threat with no legal consequence. Unfortunately, the lawyer's brief remains, and the corporation has contemplated censorship as a course of action leaving some cause for concern. By...
Notes on the Middle East Crisis
Depending upon whether ones premise is national security or tribal faith, your conclusions are liable to be completely different, and the surprise is that few Jews or people of Jewish origin ever discuss what it might be like to arrive at a different conclusion than zionism. Suppose one simply du...
Encumbant George W Bush talks about war before his election
Before George W Bush was even elected, there was talk about war in the air. On Larry King it became a topic of conversation. The transcript can be reviewed here KING: And you say it's a principle, no one should pay more than a third. G. BUSH: Right. KING: That's a principle of yours. You […]
Paying for television or buying advertising?
ARE we paying for television or simply buying advertising? Judging by content on SABC's three channels and eTV, the almost "free-to-air" channels, consumers are getting very little for their money. If one compares the amount of content available to DSTV subscribers, the terrestrial services are f...
The Winnie Mandela of the Middle East
LIELA KHALID strikes a defient pose, as a freedom fighter, she is no better off than our own Winnie Mandela — bellicose, belligerent and given to blank statements that go down with the masses. One is reminded of so many rallies in which the soft, voices of reason, the call of peace were drowned o...