This week, a grade seven scholar visited me with a notebook and 10 questions. She was completing an assignment and had decided to focus on “women in media”. As we fiddled with recorders and chairs, I smiled at her fascination with the newsroom beyond the walls of my office.newsroom is small, in people size — tiny when compared to some of its previous incarnations, and especially tiny compared to our colleagues on either side of Empire Road in Johannesburg — it is still a wondrous place.
Because there are moments when it feels as if we will soon struggle to find people who even want to do this work. And in a week in which a senior South African journalist is alleged to have benefited from a crime intelligence slush fund — an allegation that the journalist denies — that trust between you and us is particularly fragile. We recognise that. But it is the allegations that various pockets of crime intelligence and state security intentionally planted stories in the news media, setting one narrative against the other, that are even more worrying.
We can often rebut some of those criticisms with proof of reporting exactly what we are accused of ignoring — like this week when one ardent Twitter user argued that thewould never report on the struggles of University of Zululand students, while using pictures taken byOur journalists do not exist in a vacuum. Each of us brings our lived experiences and our own prejudices to this office. And we do make judgments about what to cover and what to ignore, based on our values and our capacity.
BS!
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khadijapatel instead of asking us to trust you, please tell us what the framework is for establishing trust in the media. Why should we trust you and not that other publication saying the opposite? Is there a system in place? Recourse? Punishment? Prevention? Just blind trust?
Journalism is important but FAKE news must not spoil what comprising the essence
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Explains why some stories never make your headlines. It’s because you’re “impartial”. Utter nonsense
The batting and spinning has started early today.
You say that but I am not sold.
Tipical they will never change only there for the money not to serve any one
MXM!BLOODY SOROS SPONSORED NEWS!
Trying to be relevent, you tainted your image for too long now, that trust between you and us is particularly gone. You better see that.
Le re tlwaela masepa, mesono!
'a' senior South African journalist.....name not needed😃
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