NO SOONER had 'investigative reporter' Sizwe Dlamini, of the Independent Group's self-styled 'falcons' investigation team, erroneously claimed that he had exposed Branko Birkic's Daily Maverick, for being, (wait for it), a 'newspaper with subscrib...
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IOL-Brkic ‘forensic report” nothing more than a list of scurrilous multi-baby questions?
THE EDITOR of an 'elite investigative unit' , housed deep inside Independent Media, the so-named Falcons claims to have uncovered evidence linking the Daily Maverick to Jackie Selebi and the underworld. A report emanating from Paul O'Sullivan's 'Forensics for Justice' (FFJ) used to back the piece...
IOL peddling ‘alternative facts’ as decuplets shortlisting axed
INDEPENDENT MEDIA has sought to reframe its fraudulent 'decuplet scoop', within a narrative of human trafficking. Not only is the health department pursuing charges, but the latest attempt to insert authority into the storyline by gaining a nomination for its own 'miniseries' on the subject, whic...
Media Cartel 2017
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Apartheid-era bank bail-outs make headlines
FOR OVER two decades the truth about apartheid-era bank bail-outs, corporate slush-funds, financial life-boats, espionage and dirty tricks was suppressed by the mainstream press. The country's state broadcaster, the venerable SABC even went so far as pulling the plug on a documentary by Silvia Vo...
A Death Sentence for Africa The Durban Climate Deal and Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
The UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night cliffhanger negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions – by both developed and developing countries – that would be ag...