HOW THE SUNDAY TIMES HAS LOST THE ABILITY TO IDENTIFY THE NEWS

How did the Sunday Times decide to cut this story? R1 million of taxpayers’ money siphoned off to the ANC? It certainly seems newsworthy. Their decision not to publish is all the more bizarre when you consider they were given the story as an exclusive. Could it be the Sunday Times has lost is [...]

HOW THE SUNDAY TIMES MANUFACTURES THE NEWS

A look at the way in which the Sunday Times recasts old news in a fashion that suggests it is both new and exclusive to the paper, using the paper’s front page story from 14 June 2009 by way of illustration.
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