Does Carte Blanche have any credibility left?

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No man, she is as much of a sensation seeker as any of the current lot.

Our less than pleasant run in with Carte Blanche happened more than 10 years ago, in the “good old days” with derek and Ruda still in the mix. We weren’t even the “guilty” party, we just funded their research as one part of a much bigger programme. Yet still they went out of their way to paint us as villains. I gave a solid 20 minute interview with Derek, and the 3 minute of it they aired was manipulated to the point where it didn’t resemble anything I said. They literally edited it to the point where they would show Derek asking a question, and then show me responding to a totally different question, but to the viewer it would seem as if I am giving some absurd answer to Derek. I know they did the same with our CEOs interview, so I can only imagine that is their normal way of doing things. Before that experience I actually believed they were a decent outfit, and we co-operated with them in good faith on those grounds, but we were bitterly let down and clearly manipulated.

After that I didn’t take them too seriously, but last nights bit about the water in PE really took the cake. How they could with straight faces side with the municipality on that blows my mind.
Well yeah

What did you expect?

They are a business entity, for which the main purpose is the business of generating profit, so they go about their business to that end.

What you were expecting is what was Good old fashioned investigative journalism for the good of the people, that still happens somewhere I'm sure, but mostly now those cases are on newspapers somewhere in a dark room where they have turned disturbingly yellow sepia ish, I wonder if thats where they came up with the "olden day" colour filters... anyway.
 
I Know someone who was a victim of their selective editing, he was a good guy and was definitely not the bad guy in the story but they made him sound like a complete a-hole by just using selected bits of an interview instead of the whole thing. Stopped watching after that.
Imagine getting hold of the raw uncut footage of say, Kitchen Nightmares. You could edit it and make Ramsay the antagonist. Editing is everything.
 
Like a lot of MSM entities these days, stories are exaggerated for the shock factor to drive viewership, engagement etc.

I personally believe most societies which are so split these days would benefit from media companies being severely sanctioned for sensationalism
You also described the business model for social media ....
 
This

+ When Devi Sankaree Govender left

Geez that Tannie was on fire if you were guilty, and scared of no one, sometimes her pieces were more thrilling than the 8pm movie thereafter

I remember the episode where she was investigating a dodgy doctor. The guy locked himself in his office and told her he wasn't coming out until she left. I was laughing while they were arguing through the door.
 
I stopped watching years ago when they had some dude with a magic briefcase that could find dead people…
I wondered about that, since then nobody has ever heard of this person with the magic briefcase,
was there any credibility to that? or was it a trust us Bro moment, kind of like asking a sangoma for help.
 
I wondered about that, since then nobody has ever heard of this person with the magic briefcase,
was there any credibility to that? or was it a trust us Bro moment, kind of like asking a sangoma for help.
Former police officer Danie Krugel, whose "magic box" was featured in a Carte Blanche programme on the missing girls connected to paedophile Gert van Rooyen, may be working on another device.
Lol snake oil. I recall the episode as well.
 
Problem no1: Journalists

The current lot can't spell, construct a decent sentence or write an original story. Copy & Paste is king.

/spits
 
Flip I remember that one as well. Quite a shocker and they took a lot of flack for that one. IMHO they were rock solid before then so easily could have been the first crack.
Yeah look i think some of their shows, if not many were good. But that just did it for me.

They used to sit at a restaurant i would go for lunch to near Greenside a lot. I could hear them behind me talking about the shows and stuff. I always wanted to up to Derek and say "wth was that!?!" but never did lol..
 

Lol snake oil. I recall the episode as well.
snake oil but one that fooled millions, and somehow carte blanche gave it credibility that actual forensic science didnt do.
 
When Ruda and Derek hosted and did their investigative stories on many matters, good and bad back in the day, they instilled fear in those doing wrong and for exposing them.

Now it's just the same as the government and ANC where everything in the wrong is just shrugged off with impunity... par for the course in this country.
 
When Ruda and Derek hosted and did their investigative stories on many matters, good and bad back in the day, they instilled fear in those doing wrong and for exposing them.

Now it's just the same as the government and ANC where everything in the wrong is just shrugged off with impunity... par for the course in this country.
Nah man Isabella Jones brought fear
 
The main feature was a piece on “illegal” water delivery trucks in PE. They seemed to be working with/in support of the municipality, instead of asking the real tough question of why the municipality can’t reliably supply water to its residents.

Both are issues worth reporting on. I dont think you drop one just because you have something flashier to offer.
 
Both are issues worth reporting on. I dont think you drop one just because you have something flashier to offer.
Don’t be daft man. Water is a basic human necessity. No one would be going through the trouble of buying water from a tanker, legal or not, if the municipality did the absolute basic job of delivering water via the taps.

Now the useless municipality wants to fine/arrest people for delivering water, after they fail to deliver it. Carte Blanche works with the municipality to tell the story, instead of investigating the municipality’s failure
 
Used to watch Carte Blanche religiously. The main change wasn't a biggie at the time, they were already Leftist thinking and they just shifted into higher gear with such bias around the time Covid started.

Add to that that they largely do "surface-level" reporting these days, and there's little left (pun intended) to watch these days.

I keep an eye on what's on, only end up watching an article or two per month now at best.
 
Quantity over quality now? Hmm, sound familiar.
Yep, much like news articles and their SEO bait headlines and lack of substance. Just throw schit at the walls and see what sticks.

Also publish old news as new, or an opposing take on a previous article. Boom. More engagement. Media has gone down the tubes rapidly and completely.
 
Yeah, @Brian_G (nee Brain) made this thread back in the day.


It got solid traction.

I added my 2c as well.
 
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