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		<title>Will the SA Press Ombud clear up the lies?</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/will-the-sa-press-ombud-clear-up-the-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publish and be damned, as the old saying goes. For too long South Africa&#8217;s press have been allowed to print lies and get away with not telling the truth. The two rulings on &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221; by the Press Ombudsman may help to save the reputation of the mainstream media, but it does absolutely nothing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1150&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We know nothing &#8211; SA Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Media Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOUTH AFRICA&#8217;S news media knows absolutely nothing about the bribery and corruption scandal involving Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schrieber. The shenanigans of the Independent News and Media director has dominated overseas headlines and has been part of a three year investigation on Fifth Estate, Canada&#8217;s version of Third Degree &#8211; but local news media, many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=775&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Saloon: Hypocrisy as usual as whites barred</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/sunday-saloon-hypocrisy-as-usual-as-whites-barred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidrobertlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHILE the outrage expressed by certain journalists of a paler complexion, at Friday’s re-launch of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) is understandable (some white journalists were denied access while others were barred entry) – this blogger can only shake his head and remark at the hypocrisy of all concerned.

SANEF launched into a full scale [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=216&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gavin O&#8217;Reilly must go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidrobertlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[INM Lies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, the press in South Africa does not exist. What exists is some kind of franchise to mislead the public, falsify evidence, commit fraud and not even an apology in a 2&#215;4 column is going to make things right now.
Take the O&#8217;Brian report this year which accused O&#8217;Reilly of crony capitalism and worse, the kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=163&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s Commercial Press taking flack</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/corporate-media-taking-flack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidrobertlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Headline today: Media24 in hot water. Apparently staff have been misrepresenting circulation figures to advertisers, resulting in a furore over billing. A routine audit of a number of Media24 magazine titles, according to IOL has revealed &#8220;certain discrepancies&#8221;, the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) was reported as saying on Friday.
The ABC had apparently asked Media24 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=161&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEDIA APARTHEID CAMPAIGN: censorship saga continues.</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/150/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidrobertlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Alternative Media Forum (Altmedia-F) is contemplating a series of protests to mark the anniversary of the controversial expunging of an article about a well-known Mocambican immigrant guitarist and the suppression of comments made by a local jazz musician, from community press in Cape Town . The protests will form part of Altmedia-F&#8217;s, Media Apartheid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=156&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Media hypocrisy exposed</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/149/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidrobertlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAPE TOWN: The Independent Group has refused a request for information relating to its liability as a corporate entity and ongoing participation as a media company in civil litigation. The request filed on behalf of the Alternative Media Forum (AMF) &#8212; an ad hoc grouping of media activists and civil society organisations &#8212; was submitted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=155&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PARROT MEDIA: Questioning AIDS and BIRD FLU statistics.</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2005/11/08/54/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidrobertlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUDGING from reactions to my last posting, its a big crime in this country to question statistics of any kind. Gosh, what happens if those numbers are wrong? Some empiricists could lose their jobs while we all get into a flap about fowls dying of influenza, or mother hens keeling over from the sniffles. Imagine, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=58&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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