Crime reporting in S Africa: white paper, black paper

BeeldFascin­at­ing post from Anton Har­ber on crime report­ing in South Africa and the dif­fer­ent agendas/perspectives of two news­pa­pers. I hope he won’t mind if I repeat it all:

Two news­pa­pers in the same build­ing do the same crime story. The res­ult: two ver­sions so dif­fer­ent that there is almost noth­ing – not even their pho­to­graphs of the same woman – which would have us link them together. Con­tinue read­ing