Thursday, February 3, 2011

Are the media allergic to constructive critical examination of their conduct?




Tweets: ‘Woman wants editors in Concourt over Censorship’



News24: @News24 South Africa: News24 is Southern Africa and Africa's premier online news resource reaching over 2.3 million local users each month. http://www.news24.com.


In What some media don’t want you to think about, Christi van der Westhuizen writes:

I recently resigned as monthly columnist at Media24’s daily newspapers after one of my columns was censured. The offence that led to the censorship? As a proponent of the position that the media’s allergic reaction to self-criticism is to its own detriment, I had dared to do exactly that: employ critical examination of the media.


The following tweets are responses to:




Charles Human; @charliehuman Cape Town: writer, digital marketing executive,freelance thaumaturge




Sipho Hlongwane: @comradesipho Johannesburg, South Africa: Wordsmith. Columnist. Coconutist. Counter-revolutionary. Simultaneously a starry-eyed optimist and a bitter cynic. Writes for Mail & Guardian Thoughtleader & Daily Maverick




Phillip de Wet, Deputy Editor for The Daily Maverick




@ Amanda Sevasti (Amanda S. Whitehouse): South African writer and content manager at 4D Euro RSCG.




Writergal70: I'm a freelance writer from S.A. who tweets about whatever takes my fancy.



WayneDV (Wayne de Villiers): Capetown, South Africa




Vampyre Journo (Natasha Joseph): Newspaper journo, though tweeting in my capacity as a personal person.




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Sean Hamilton @CensorshipToday Mesa, AZ: The Official Twitter Account of Censorship in America http://censorshipinamerica.wordpress.com




Simon K. @I_had_2_Say: Staring 40 in the face. Married the girl next door. Father of 4. Nice guy.




Africa news: @africanews247




worldnews: @world247net: Netherlands: Worldnews from all countries 24 hours a day 7 days a week on World247! On social media web en mobile!




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Elly mgwamba: @Elly_mgwamba Randfontein, South africa: Im a CNN junky, they really are the global news leader




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