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Monday, February 12, 2007

Addressing the state of the media
By MMP @ 10:15 AM :: 525 Views :: 0 Comments

Following President Mbeki’s state of the nation address, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) would like to add the following state of the media in South Africa observations. In line with the MMP’s mandate we looked at a number of human rights issues and their relationship to the media. These include press freedom, race and racism, gender, HIV and AIDS, children, and the local government elections.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Crime and the President
By MMP @ 10:11 AM :: 535 Views :: 0 Comments

Crime is always a prominent issue in the news. It is particularly prominent currently. So, MMP undertook to look at different crime stories and see if human rights were upheld. Firstly, we looked at trends in covering stories where women murder their husbands and then examined a story on alleged police brutality of a sex worker.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Rwanda, media monitoring and husband-murdering women
By MMP @ 9:52 AM :: 586 Views :: 0 Comments

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Black lists, easy monitoring and race revealed
By MMP @ 10:06 AM :: 451 Views :: 0 Comments

In this update - the SABC blacklist report, the revealing race report and an article on high profile Triumph billboards shown in Johannesburg.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

16 Days Special
By MMP @ 10:03 AM :: 401 Views :: 0 Comments

The 16 Days campaign of no violence against women and children started on Saturday. This special edition newsletter brings a sneak peek at the results of the Zuma rape trial monitoring and last year's 16 days report. If you wish to do your own monitoring this year, MMP has developed the Monitoring Made Easy software for you to monitor issues of gender.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Advertisers and childhood obesity
By MMP @ 9:59 AM :: 455 Views :: 0 Comments

You requested to be kept informed of issues affecting children in the media. MMP is very concerned about the advertising of fast food to children considering the rates of childhood obesity in South Africa. Urgent action is necessary to curb this trend.

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