ANC sets sights on newspapers

alf101 said:
Yeah, the fatcats are tired of being exposed.
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What I don't get is, what difference will it make?

The ANC does whatever the hell it wants anyway. Why should it care if 10% of the country is reading about what idiots they are?
 
grayston said:
What I don't get is, what difference will it make?

The ANC does whatever the hell it wants anyway. Why should it care if 10% of the country is reading about what idiots they are?
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Cause they intend to step up their game within the next 5 years from being passive to actively persuing their agendas. They don't want documented press, while they 'accelerate their land reform program' and start with their 'nationalization of mines'. Oh, and then there's also the NHI to look forward to... that is going to be EPIC FAIL as well. First things first tho, silence the media and press, and just report on the so called 'good news'.... Lancelot must be doing backflips out of excitement.
 
KillerX said:
Cause they intend to step up their game within the next 5 years from being passive to actively persuing their agendas. They don't want documented press, while they 'accelerate their land reform program' and start with their 'nationalization of mines'. Oh, and then there's also the NHI to look forward to... that is going to be EPIC FAIL as well. First things first tho, silence the media and press, and just report on the so called 'good news'.... Lancelot must be doing backflips out of excitement.
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Yeah, and?

To get back to my original point, when has the media prevented the ANC from doing anything?

Scorpions? Gone. Dead babies? Ignored. Arms deal? What arms deal. Xenophobia? Ignored!

The internal workings of the ANC are never discussed with the media. Whenever corruption is exposed, the ANC just says - prove it, knowing that no-one except the government itself has the resources to do that.

The media is pretty useless as a watchdog, so why is the ANC attacking them?
 
I love this part:

According to the documents, it's the printed media in particular which is a thorn in the party's side because of reports which seldom paint the government in a positive light.
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So basically, if you don't like us, we'll make SURE no one ever knows about it.

Thumbs up for democracy!
 
grayston said:
What I don't get is, what difference will it make?

The ANC does whatever the hell it wants anyway. Why should it care if 10% of the country is reading about what idiots they are?
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Perhaps because their supporters are hearing about it now.
Noticed the number of strikes these days and service delivery protests?
 
alf101 said:
Perhaps because their supporters are hearing about it now.
Noticed the number of strikes these days and service delivery protests?
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Yup. Noticed how the people who strike and protest don't read newspapers?
 
The Voting is around the corner. What a great show of ANC power, to shut up the Newspapers, while they get the Votes !
Good By South Africa, Hallo Commie Africa !
 
grayston said:
Because newspapers cost money.
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And that means what exactly?

If 1 person manages to buy a newspaper, he can easily spread the news verbally to any amount of people. Thus the message is still spread.

Of ANY type of mass media, newspapers are the most accessible to the poor. So obviously the ANC wants to block them. Can't have their main voter base finding out how useless they are, can they?
 
avaratz said:
And that means what exactly?

If 1 person manages to buy a newspaper, he can easily spread the news verbally to any amount of people. Thus the message is still spread.

Of ANY type of mass media, newspapers are the most accessible to the poor. So obviously the ANC wants to block them. Can't have their main voter base finding out how useless they are, can they?
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No - radio is most accessible by the poor. And most radio stations are SABC-owned (ie under government control).

Newspapers like the Mail & Gaurdian are read by - what, maybe 100,000 people a week? At most? And the M&G is a pretty dense read. A Bantu-educated mineworker really isn't going to get very far into it, even if it was delivered to him for free. Hell, most educated white people aren't going to get very far into the M&G.
 
grayston said:
No - radio is most accessible by the poor. And most radio stations are SABC-owned (ie under government control).

Newspapers like the Mail & Gaurdian are read by - what, maybe 100,000 people a week? At most? And the M&G is a pretty dense read. A Bantu-educated mineworker really isn't going to get very far into it, even if it was delivered to him for free. Hell, most educated white people aren't going to get very far into the M&G.
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I do agree with you about the radio (forgot about that one :p)

But there's a lot more newspapers than the M&G - Citypress is aimed at the black audience, owned by Media24, and has 2.06-million weekly readers according to http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/constitution/news.htm. Not sure how reliable that site is, but a lot of newspapers aimed at the black market have a fair number of readers. 1.96-million readers per week for the Sunday Sun, 1.06-million per week for the Sunday World, 391 000 daily readers of Isolezwe and 1.54-million DAILY readers of the Sowetan.

A substantial amount of readers, I'm sure you'll agree - and a very good way to get the ball rolling on press censorship - bearing in mind, as I said, that those readers are easily capable of spreading the news verbally...
 
grayston said:
No - radio is most accessible by the poor. And most radio stations are SABC-owned (ie under government control).
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And that one has already been checked off the list. It's the glaring unchecked box at the end of the list that still needs urgent attention ie. newspapers and online press.
 
avaratz said:
I do agree with you about the radio (forgot about that one :p)

But there's a lot more newspapers than the M&G - Citypress is aimed at the black audience, owned by Media24, and has 2.06-million weekly readers according to http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/constitution/news.htm. Not sure how reliable that site is, but a lot of newspapers aimed at the black market have a fair number of readers. 1.96-million readers per week for the Sunday Sun, 1.06-million per week for the Sunday World, 391 000 daily readers of Isolezwe and 1.54-million DAILY readers of the Sowetan.

A substantial amount of readers, I'm sure you'll agree - and a very good way to get the ball rolling on press censorship - bearing in mind, as I said, that those readers are easily capable of spreading the news verbally...
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Rather say "African market", the black market is something else.
 
grayston said:
No - radio is most accessible by the poor. And most radio stations are SABC-owned (ie under government control).

Newspapers like the Mail & Gaurdian are read by - what, maybe 100,000 people a week? At most? And the M&G is a pretty dense read. A Bantu-educated mineworker really isn't going to get very far into it, even if it was delivered to him for free. Hell, most educated white people aren't going to get very far into the M&G.
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Headlines that appear on billboards stuck all over the place do the job. Don't need to read the article, for it to make a subconscious impact on you one way or the other.
 
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