The man who stiffed journalists of payments and who controlled the Independent Group with an iron fist is no longer a media baron. The much-reduced Irish-owned Independent Group has been sent packing back to Ireland, thanks to a deal which saw the...
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Independent Group on verge of collapse
One has got to feel a little sorry for the fact cats at Independent right now. No sooner had they restructured the company to spin off their South African billboard advertising operation with the renamed INM outdoor, when the man who owns 26% of the company Denis O'Brien blocked the sale by calli...
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'...
SPONSOR-PAID PRESS DEBACLE:Ongoing saga of the lying Irishmen and the D. F. Malan Organisation
IN several articles published in the print media over the last 18 months referring to my dispute with the Independent Group and Media24 and the ongoing attempt to gain a fair hearing, media hypocrisy has been taken to new heights. Not only do these articles contain inaccuracies, half-truths and o...
Gavin O’Reilly must go
Frankly, the press in South Africa does not exist. What exists is some kind of franchise to mislead the public, falsify evidence, commit fraud and not even an apology in a 2×4 column is going to make things right now. Take the O'Brian report this year which accused O'Reilly of crony capitali...
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