The defective trifecta – awards overshadowed by attacks on the Fourth Estate
A functioning Fourth Estate is vital to any democracy, but given this week’s events, there are clear signs that certain factions are aiming for anything but.
A functioning Fourth Estate is vital to any democracy, but given this week’s events, there are clear signs that certain factions are aiming for anything but.
Biznews awaits the Cape Times’s detailed response to what its lawyer terms “each and every untrue and defamatory statement” and will publish them with equal prominence.
Be an activist with empathy. That was the essence of Allister Sparks’ message as the keynote speaker at the graduation of his granddaughter earlier this year in England.
As a person interested in what happens at the interface between politics and media, Ed Herbst was troubled by a sentence in a recent Cape Times front page story.
Ed Herbst wonders what is the glue that holds successful relationships together? If that can be answered, we will know what men, women really want?
It seems the SABC under Hlaudi Motsoeneng is no longer a mouthpiece for the ANC – it has become a mouthpiece for Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
Ed Herbst looks at an example of investigative journalism at the Cape Times, which played a significant role in bringing to international public attention the true story of the Gugulethu Seven.
Former journalist Ed Herbst says the Khwezi protest was a defining moment in South African politics. Strike a woman, strike a rock.
Ed Herbst says the deliberate expulsion of principled news people by ANC acolytes continues to happen at the SABC and is also taking place at Gupta-owned ANN7.
This article, the first of two, looks at how employees are treated in news organisations whose senior executives are strongly aligned to the ANC.