Newsletter| World Press Freedom day is celebrated annually and globally but is the meaning still significant to us? Compared to many other countries, SA has set a good and satisfactory example of what media freedom should be, writes Mpumelelo Phoswa
What is real media independence? Let’s look at the brief exploration of what the term entails.
It is crucial that journalists and media workers globally are enabled the right to exercise media freedom.However, complete media freedom isn’t as accessible as it is easily spoken about.These governments are intimidated by journalists and media power houses as they often expose their delinquency and deceitfulness to the citizens, they reveal what is truly going on behind those flamboyant suits and closed doors.
When asked to comment about this alleged accusation of bullying they said in their defence that the SABC was “alarmist at best and malicious at worst, with the sole intention of projecting the ANC in a negative light”. The extent of oppression in Turkey has few if any precedence in the history reaching to the graphic designers, cameramen and other employees of media.
This deterioration was the result of changing of media ownership structures, record journalist imprisonment, exploitation of broadcast, internet and social media, and press laws to silence oppositional. In even more deficient cases, life imprisonment being inevitable with no possibility of a pardon or even proper legal representation.
The IPI said that, through the closure of media outlets and printing houses and a combination of media distortion, economic pressure and friendly media ownership.It is very evident that the government is ignorant and arrogant, seeing that they will stop at nothing to censoring the media in their country.
In North Korea, it has been taken as far as the adoption of technical measures on their mobile phones and smartphones, these measures ensure that the government has complete control over communications and files transmitted over the national intranet. A media ownership transparency law has been put into place since 2016, this law is less restrictive of concentration of media ownership and is governed by legislation on competition.
If anything South Africa should reflect on the privilege that they have and strive towards making this privilege available and permanent not only for themselves but for all countries internationally.
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