IN 2018 I wrote an opinion piece warning, that closure of debate, in particular the gutting of letters pages of titles published by IOL would lead to ruin. The job of a free press is to reflect public opinion, to guide and mediate popular discours...
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IOL forced to apologise for smear campaign targeting Daily Maverick
INDEPENDENT Media have been forced to apologise for their smear campaign. "During March 2020 Daily News published an article titled ‘Daily Maverick asked me to write and do negative tweets about Dr Iqbal Survé’ in print and on its digital platform within Independent Online. The article accused Da...
De Lille says ‘schizophrenic, mad’ Ehrenreich has lost the political plot”. Cape Times 17 April refers
(Another unpublished letter to the Cape Times) Dear Ed De Lille says ‘schizophrenic, mad’ Ehrenreich has lost the political plot". Cape Times 17 April refers The medical dismissal of Tony Ehrenreich by mayor Patricia de Lille has overtones of Nazism. The Nazi regime relegated all those it disagre...
INM board mischief, mere window-dressing?
IT'S amazing what difference a week can make in the lives of today's corporate executives. Take the changing fortune of deposed INM board member Ivan "The Terrible" Fallon, or the fate of media tycoon, Tony O'Reilly, replaced by son Gavin? After the INM night of the long knives, with one other O'...
Independent Group Board Member to face ethics committee again
A Canadian government ethics committee wants to hear from Independent Group's Brian Mulroney again. According to Juliet O'Neill of the Canwest News Service, Ottawa's House of Commons ethics committee voted 6-5 on Thursday to recall the former Canadian prime minister to testify yet again about hi...
Media Freedom: Cape Times gambling on collective amnesia
THE Cape Times is gambling that enough people in this country suffer from collective amnesia – that readers will forget what happened last week, or the week before that, and even last year and the year before. They are waging a bet that a small judgement against them means nothing. The Inde...
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