Introduction | Theoretical Framework & Assumptions | Methodology Putting the monitoring into perspective | Key Findings | Media's coverage of children   Methodology Limitations   The sample of media monitored covered print, radio and television media, but was necessarily limited, in that, not all of the media in South Africa could be included. For print media, all news items in the paper were monitored; advertisements and supplements were specifically excluded. For radio, three news bulletins per day were monitored, however, current affairs programmes were not monitored. For television, only news bulletins were monitored. The research is, therefore, limited to analysis of the news as monitored in the media included for the period March to the end of May 2003.