ANC is correctly right and they should include media sensorship board and cord of conduct to regulate them. thank you
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:34 PDT Mzwandile Dlabazana wrote: >Clear ,short and to the point > >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dominic.Tweedie >Sent: 22 July 2010 12:40 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Morgan Phaahla on media tribunal, in Business Day > >Please note the reactions in the comments below this letter of Cde Morgan's, >here<http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=115524>. Do please >leave some comments there. - VC > > > >[cid:[email protected]] > > >Tribunal will fix mess > > >Morgan Phaahla, Letters, Business Day, 22 July 2010 > >The call by the African National Congress for the establishment of an >independent media tribunal to deal specifically with unethical journalism is >long overdue. We cannot continue to allow a situation where a former >journalist is being paid by the media to adjudicate on matters affecting >itself in the public interest. > >It's only an independent body that can realise this objective. > >The complaints of journalists over-stepping the mark and publishing >allegations without taking reasonable steps to verify any accuracy have fallen >on deaf ears because the ombudsman is not only uncomfortable with tackling >former colleagues, but reluctant to bite the hand that feeds him. > >I further endorse a call for an independent zero-fault system to deal with >corrupt journalists and editors susceptible to "brown envelopes" in order to >champion a certain political agenda. This includes those playing a part in >narrow factional interests to catapult conspiracy theories driven by the >desire to publish diabolical allegations and dirty gossips about others >without a care for their reputation, dignity and standing in society. I do not >know why there is such resistance to the tribunal when its existence will >harmonise the current system of self-regulation, to help the media regain lost >credibility and dignity. > >Media practitioners should be compelled to use freedom of the media to promote >the spirit, purport and objects of the constitution. > >Now is the time to put an end to the cynical agenda of the media to impose its >own right to inform the public with distorted news and stories fraught with >falsehoods, all driven by profit and desire to up sales. The tribunal remains >the only way forward. > >Morgan Phaahla > >Ekurhuleni > >From: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=115524 > >With comments > >-- >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] . > >-- >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] . -- 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] .
