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PARLIAMENTARY INDABA:TRANSFORMATION AND
DIVERSITY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN PRINT MEDIA
Presentation by:William Bird & Carol Netshifhefhe
22 September 2011
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ABOUT MMA
Formerly the Media Monitoring Project Vision:
A responsible media that enables an informed and engaged citizenry in
Africa and across the world.
Promoting Human Rights and Democracy through the media since
1993
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MORE ABOUT MMA
Human rights NGO monitoring the media since 1993 – celebrating 18 years; Conducted over 120 media monitoring projects:
Race (SAHRC, CSVR), Elections; Gender (GMBS, GMMP); Children (ECM); HIV (WITS, MAP), and more!
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MMA & SUBMISSIONS
Impact media policy, submissions:IBA and ICASA
Broadcasters Code of Conduct;SABC Licence Conditions;Elections report;Disability code of conduct, and more!Individual media, SABC Editorial Policies;Press Council Review;
Parliamentary Committees;Broadcasting Bills;Advertising & Transformation Hearings;
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MMA Bias and AssumptionsMMA work has Human Rights Bias;LOVE our Constitution;Print media and Government intend to do good;Public and citizen participation essential for democracy;
Delighted to be taking place in MEDIA FREEDOM WEEK!! Debate on Hate Speech Ruling
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PROCESS
Concerns: Very short notice of the indaba; Exclusive invitations; Lack of consultation;
Conspiracy theories: encourages view that parliament is out to limit media freedom;
Flies in face of recent considered, consultative approach by Department of Communication, Portfolio Committee on Communication on SABC AND EVEN ICASA has announced comprehensive review.
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PROCESS Accordingly:
This is the beginning of far more engaged series of debates, discussions and consultations on key issues;
CRUCIAL to the success of the process is the importance of QUALITY consultation
Quality consultation: Not rushed; Full, meaningful, comprehensive engagement
with ALL key stakeholders and ordinary citizens over a reasonable period of time;
Promotes entrenchment and realisation of the rights in our constitution;
And in line with principles of open and accountable governance
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TRANSFORMATION
Significant change and transformation in our media sector as a whole in terms of:
Ownership; Diversity; Content
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TRANSFORMATION
Is it the best in the world? Maybe not Could our media be better? Yes – as could we all
My country my media a personal impact Seeing people like me: in stories and
practitioners Transformation is an ongoing journey
USA celebrated 227 of their Constitution – South Africa less than a 10th – but look how far we have come
But we must keep going…
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TRANSFORMATION
Crucial to the process is; We have to want to change:
Desire for change and improvement; Ongoing pressure from civil society – on all
of us to do better; Positive Incentive for change
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TRANSFORMATION Are the factors for change present?
YES, Pressure and incentive from civil society; MMA in its 18 years experience has seen
significant positive shifts in coverage on: Gender and gender based violence; Race, racism and xenophobia; Children and Elections
From what I know ALL of these were unimaginable less than 20 years ago
Seen new papers emerging! Targeting new audiences – Daily Sun and Daily Voice; Small
commercial African language media: Isolezwe, Sunday Times IsiZulu edition; Efforts from Government and MDDA in supporting small media
???
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WAY FORWARD
We look forward to participating in a comprehensive process focused on these issues and more;
MMA will provide research, detailed input and assistance going forward should we be invited;
Thank you; Please support media freedom week Get onto twitter if you cannot be there follow
#FreeMediaZA
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WAY FORWARD