OPINION: The type of propaganda journalism practised by PLMyburgh at dailymaverick is dangerous for the media profession as a whole, writes AyandaMdluli28 IndyMediaSA IqbalSurve SekunjaloGroup
The media is under threat – from tightened purse strings, shrinking newsrooms and reduced magazine pages to the ever-declining readership as jaded audiences switch to news streams they trust , or simply switch off.
While I have written several pieces this year about the tactics of some of my colleagues in the media, sometimes all it takes is a small event to truly bring things into focus. That was yesterday’s Daily Maverick article, courtesy of the sting in the tail Scorpio division, about the e-Learning contract in the Eastern Cape that will give students the ability to actually learn something.
The "story" published yesterday had zero substance, was largely circumstantial and suppositional with much of Scorpio’s conjecture refuted even by the parties it interviewed and who were quoted in the article.
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