702 racist news headlines

[King Hamster]

Complaint to 702:

I am tired of hear the headline “well known Afrikaans singer, Jurie Els”.......

Firstly he is not well know I had never heard of him before and secondly why the Afrikaans? You don’t say Zulu Politician Jacob Zuma or Jewish Business man Barry Tannenbaum do you?

So take it out of your report

You are what scientists would refer to as an "idiot moron".

 

[Kloofvreter]

Kill 2 birds with 1 stone, eg: rather listen to radio sonder grense, that way you dont have to listen to 702's headlines, and you might hear more of JE on radio sonder grense

Radio Sonder Mense

 

[supersunbird]

I still don't think it implies the genre of music, and if it does to you its ambivilent to me

They always say "well known Kwaito singer Mandoza" when refering to his troubles after driving into the back of that car which caused the death of 2 people. So you point is well... pointless...

 

[DJ...]

I still don't think it implies the genre of music, and if it does to you its ambivilent to me

The word you're depserately looking for is 'ambiguous', not ambivolent...

I think I have been vindicated by the fact that 702 have now stopped using the term “Afrikaans” in reference to Jurie Els. Firstly despite what you may think I did not object because I was Afrikaans speaking but because I thought that such terminology was not to be used in South Africa unless there was a particular reason to add further identification. In the case at hand there is no necessity to label the accused as Afrikaans. They have, in their omission, accepted the fact that they never intended it to be a genre of music, but rather a language issue.

No, the headline was changed after some anal-whinger with an inferiority complex bitched and moaned about a headline which was potentially ambiguous if you severly lack in comprehension skills. Kudos to 702 for fielding calls and answering emails from 'special-needs-learners'...