'Inaccurate' eTV blasted Article By: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:17 The SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) has laid a complaint against eTV for allegedly using video footage captured last year for a story on this year's ongoing municipal strike, the union said on Tuesday.
The material, captured during an entirely different matter, was carried on Monday during eNews coverage of the strike without any indication that it was file footage, Samwu said in a statement. It charged that this was designed to create an inaccurate view of the strike. Samwu said the footage used showed a banner and members of the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU) which was not participating in the present strike. "Without notifying viewers that this is file footage, they are not being truthful or accurate," it said. eTV spokesperson Vasili Vass would not comment, explaining that the television station had not received the complaint. Samwu said it had also complained about SAFM's use of the phrase "Samwu left a trail of destruction in Johannesburg and Pretoria" during its hourly broadcasts. "That was the sum total of the reporting on the half-hourly broadcasts. "There was no mention that in-depth discussions were underway between the parties, and that a settlement was being sought," Samwu said, denying that there had been a trail of destruction, which implied substantial damage to property. There was waste on the streets because it was not being collected and not because it was deliberately put there, the union said. http://news.iafrica.com/sa/2369031.htm On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Vusi Nzapheza <[email protected]>wrote: > Blade: Workers' media needed > Apr 22, 2010 10:49 PM | By DOMINIC MAHLANGU > ------------------------------ > SA Communist Party boss Blade Nzimande wants his organisation and trade > union federation Cosatu to start their own radio station and a newspaper. > > Writing this week in his party newsletter, Umsebenzi Online, Nzimande said > there was a need to take their "ideological work" to new heights. > > "We need to be innovative and bold by building on these foundations and > reach out to broader society. > > "Our international allies often comment that, given the strength and power > of the working class in South Africa, we should by right be having our own > newspapers, radio stations, formally recognised training institutions and > other structures that will institutionalise this power," Nzimande said. > > He said he would table a proposal to set up "working class" media when the > SACP meets Cosatu on Monday. > > It is not the first time that a member of the ANC-led tripartite alliance > has called for the creation of a sympathetic media organisation. > > Soon after its unbanning in 1990, the ANC toyed with the idea before > abandoning it because of the prohibitive cost. > > The issue was again put on the table when President Jacob Zuma took over > the party reins in 2007 and the ANC's communications sub-committee was told > to explore the project's feasibility. > > ANC spokesman Ishmael Mnisi told The Times yesterday that the party had not > abandoned the idea. > > "Only the national conference in 2012 will change that. We are not at > liberty to discuss where we are with our plans to start a newspaper," Mnisi > said. > > Nzimande said it was time the SACP and Cosatu were "innovative and bold" in > building institutions that would reach out to the broader society. > > He said that, despite the government's efforts to open up the airwaves, the > working class had failed to establish community radio stations. > > "Surely it cannot be that in our public institutions neo-liberal ideas are > daily being institutionalised, while working-class theory is marginalised > ... > > "We need to build these institutions such that they are not only attractive > to organise workers, but also to the youth and to adults in broader > society," Nzimande said. > > > http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article416281.ece/Blade--Workers-media-needed > > > ** > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Vusi Nzapheza > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Antonio Gramsci 1916 >> Newspapers and the Workers >> ------------------------------ >> >> Source: *Avanti!* (Piedmont Edition) December 22, 1916; >> Translated: by Mitchell >> Abidor<http://www.marxists.org/admin/volunteers/biographies/mabidor.htm> >> ; >> CopyLeft: Creative >> Commons<http://www.marxists.org/admin/legal/cc/by-sa.htm>(Attribute & >> ShareAlike) >> marxists.org 2008. >> ------------------------------ >> >> These are the days of subscription campaigns. The editors and >> administrators of bourgeois newspapers tidy up their display windows, paint >> some varnish on their shop signs and appeal for the attention of the >> passer-by (that is, the readers) to their wares. Their wares are newspapers >> of four or six pages that go out every day or evening in order to inject in >> the mind of the reader ways of feeling and judging the facts of current >> politics appropriate for the producers and sellers of the press. >> >> We would like to discuss, with the workers especially, the importance and >> seriousness of this apparently innocent act, which consists in choosing the >> newspaper you subscribe to. It is a choice full of snares and dangers which >> must be made consciously, applying criteria and after mature reflection. >> >> Above all, the worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a >> bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the >> bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle >> motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his. Everything that >> is published is influenced by one idea: that of serving the dominant class, >> and which is ineluctably translated into a fact: that of combating the >> labouring class. And in fact, from the first to the last line the bourgeois >> newspaper smells of and reveals this preoccupation. >> >> But the beautiful – that is the ugly – thing is this: that instead of >> asking for money from the bourgeois class to support it in its pitiless work >> in its favour, the bourgeois newspapers manage to be paid by...the same >> labouring classes that they always combat. And the labouring class pays; >> punctually, generously. >> >> Hundreds of thousands of workers regularly and daily give their pennies to >> the bourgeois newspapers, thus assisting in creating their power. Why? If >> you were to ask this of the first worker you were to see on the tram or the >> street with a bourgeois paper spread before him you would hear: “Because I >> need to hear about what happening.” And it would never enter his head that >> the news and the ingredients with which it is cooked are exposed with an art >> that guides his ideas and influences his spirit in a given direction. And >> yet he knows that this newspaper is opportunist, and that one is for the >> rich, that the third, the fourth, the fifth is tied to political groups with >> interests diametrically opposed to his. >> >> And so every day this same worker is able to personally see that the >> bourgeois newspapers tell even the simplest of facts in a way that favors >> the bourgeois class and damns the working class and its politics. Has a >> strike broken out? The workers are always wrong as far as the bourgeois >> newspapers are concerned. Is there a demonstration? The demonstrators are >> always wrong, solely because they are workers they are always hotheads, >> rioters, hoodlums. The government passes a law? It’s always good, useful and >> just, even if it’s...not. And if there’s an electoral, political or >> administrative struggle? The best programs and candidates are always those >> of the bourgeois parties. >> >> And we’re aren’t even talking about all the facts that the bourgeois >> newspapers either keep quiet about, or travesty, or falsify in order to >> mislead, delude or maintain in ignorance the labouring public. Despite this, >> the culpable acquiescence of the worker to the bourgeois newspapers is >> limitless. We have to react against this and recall the worker to the >> correct evaluation of reality. We have to say and repeat that the pennies >> tossed there distractedly into the hands of the newsboy are projectiles >> granted to a bourgeois newspaper, which will hurl it, at the opportune >> moment, against the working masses. >> >> If the workers were to be persuaded of this most elementary of truths they >> would learn to boycott the bourgeois press with the same unity and >> discipline that the bourgeoisie boycott the newspapers of the workers, that >> is, the Socialist press. Don’t give financial assistance to the bourgeois >> press, which is your adversary. This is what should be our battle cry in >> this moment that is characterized by the subscription campaigns of all the >> bourgeois newspapers. Boycott them, boycott them, boycott them! >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Bernard Makgaka <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> The expectation that media can be objective is ideal. Media always has an >>> agenda to pursue.In South Africa the drive for revenue has taken over the >>> reporting of credible and correct information.The same comrades who accuse >>> the media of being run by capitalists,use it to settle political scores. >>> Some of our comrades sleep around in an exchange of information. Our >>> movement has been infiltrated by informants. >>> >>> A simple story is inflated and incorrectly reported. We always subjected >>> to the phrase "according to our unknown sources" on a daily basis. >>> >>> I understand that in any democrasy there must be media freedom but our >>> media has taken the concept of media freedom to another level. They are >>> abusing that freedom. >>> >>> The suggestion that was made in the past that the ANC must consider >>> establishing its own newspaper remains relevant.Only a newspaper that is >>> owned by the movement will reflect the policies of the organisation >>> correctly. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You are subscribed. This footer can help you. >>> Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply >>> to this message. >>> You can visit the group WEB SITE at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery >>> options, pages, files and membership. >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email >>> [email protected] . You don't have to put >>> anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the >>> message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address >>> (repeat): [email protected] . >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> News is something someone, somewhere doesn’t want to read. The rest is >> PR.— Claud Cockburn >> www.kwelaxpress.co.za >> >> > > > -- > News is something someone, somewhere doesn’t want to read. The rest is PR.— > Claud Cockburn > www.kwelaxpress.co.za > > -- News is something someone, somewhere doesn’t want to read. The rest is PR.— Claud Cockburn www.kwelaxpress.co.za -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
