THE first casualty in war is the truth, and saying this doesn't help the fact that not only has our daily press failed to distance itself from the conflict, many journos actively transgress the boundaries of objectivity and reason. Immediately following the 7 October 'Simchat Torah' massacre, inv...

Dear Lance Witten, Your Editorial refers A delusion is an unshakeable belief in something that's untrue. You could call the Israeli government right wing and even extremists, and the status quo highly problematic (and take a non-binary approach) but you cannot call, the rape and murder of over 26...

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 discourse. As a media freedom watchdog put it: "The backbo...

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...

READERS may remember Kanye West, the musician caught in an Anti-Semitic spiral, having gone from Racist bad to Nazi worse in the space of six months. Now IOL claims "Kanye West says he’s ‘moving to South Africa’ to start a new life". Of course, what IOL meant was there were ten Kanye West's under...