Monday, August 8, 2011

Journalism at its trashiest

South Africans are constantly being subjected to yellow journalism which presents little or no legitimate and well researched news, but uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Take Eric Miyeni's comments for example - He wrote that City Press was against the blacks being successful. This is fallacious and disingenuous because there are many black entrepreneus such as the Chief Executive of the MTN Group Phuthuma Nhleko, who are successful and legitimately so.  Miyeni's comments are antithetic to the values of non-racialism or non-sexism on which our constitution is founded. What inform him(Miyeni) that Malema is successful? The man pleaded poverty at one stage and confessed to living on handouts. What an irony! What informs him(Miyeni) again that Haffajee is a snake deployed by white capitalists? Who are these capitalists - do you know? I certainly don't...If there are white capitalists out there, please inform me...This hurtful duel is a regrettable example of gutter journalism characterised by character assassination at its ugliest and is an attempt to tarnish a person's reputation. Mind you!.. he is given an opportunity to retract the trash he wrote and still sticks to his guns- I die

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