Press statement: The Professional Journalists’ Association condemns ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema’s recent inexcusable behaviour towards BBC journalist Jonah Fisher, whom he had evicted from a news conference, calling him “a bastard” and “a bloody agent”. [Watch the video here]
Category archives: Media
MK Bruce Lee preview
A sneak preview of the MK Bruce Lee issue to be launched at the Toffie pop culture festival from 26 – 28 March. This issue was edited by Francois van Coke and is the guitar tabs issue. The guitar tabs were transcribed by Richard Brokensha from the bands Isochronous and Kidofdoom.
The Mercury, IOL quotes MarkLives, forgets to credit us
The Mercury and IOL finally caught up with the bloggers and the tweeps. It has run a story on its front page on the letter those ridiculous lawyers of FIFA sent budget airline Kulula.com.
News24 misrepresents ‘Malema Facebook page’
A story published today (March 17, 2010) in Afrikaans newspaper Beeld and republished on News24 (English) purposely misrepresents the supposed Facebook page of Julius Malema.
Shame on SAPA for giving bigot national, uncritical exposure
One Taryn Hodgson of The Christian Action Network (CAN) has been gaining considerable exposure in the mainstream media thanks to SAPA. Hodgson launched an attack on DSTv researching the possibility of offering a pornographic pay-TV channel to South Africans. SAPA decided to cast her as a vocal opponent of any such move and as an advocate for women’s rights.
The Martha Stewart Twitslap (in tweets)
by MarkLives. There’s been fairly extensive coverage of the substantial delegate walk-out and subsequent ‘twitslap’ Martha Stewart inspired at her Design Indaba conference presentation. While two or three relevant tweets have been circulating in the mainstream media, this aims to capture some of the tweets flying through the main auditorium.
Kissing is not a crime
e.TV is “clearly a crime-kisser”, according to our gung-ho police commissioner Bheki Cele, for broadcasting a segment in which two criminals held forth on their plans to do what criminals do best, rob people and shoot anybody interfering.
Finally – a retraction
The Huffington Post finally publicly distanced itself from a blog post by Jeffrey Hoffman on South Africa’s 2010 World Cup. The story has been removed from its website and the following note appears:
The Huffington Post conned with previously published racist nonsense – before removing it without explanation
Following our story on how The Huffington Post published a blog post by Jeffrey Hoffman on the 2010 World Cup, before pulling it without explanation, we can now reveal that Hoffman was passing them second hand goods and racist nonsense to boot. The Huffington Post story, titled ‘Could The 2010 World Cup Be A Disaster In the Making?’ was published January 14, 2010. It was also published January 30, 2008 on several sites owned by Hoffman, including delraybeachwebcam.com and firstwebcam.com, under the headline ‘The 2010 World Cup in South Africa – A Disaster In the Making’.
Huffington Post publish 2010 nightmare story, then pulls it without explanation
Just as the New York Times prepares to start charging for their carefully fact-checked content The Huffington Post goes and make their case for them. The Huffington Post published a piece by Jeffrey Hoffman headlined “Could The 2010 World Cup Be A Disaster In the Making?” (Posted: January 14, 2010 09:15 AM), thought better of it, and then pulled it from its website to the apparent surprise of the author. It can still be accessed at this URL but does not appear on a public list of stories attributed to Hoffman.