NEWSWATCH: the Democratic Alliance has accused the ANC of trying to muzzle the media, following the latter's accusations that if eNews refuses to hand over the tapes of a recent interview with criminals to the police, it “cannot be different from these criminals themselves", reports Mail & Guardian, which also reports that the alleged treatment of a French journalist by Joburg metro cops has made the headlines - for all the wrong reasons.
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Mail & Guardian: DA accuses ANC of trying to muzzle the media... The party says that in its “full-scale” attack on eNews over that channel's interview with two alleged criminals, the ANC is trying to muzzle the media.
Mail & Guardian: French journo 'brutalised' by metro cops… And with Western media's reaction to the attack on the Togo soccer team still fresh in our minds, it appears that a French journalist's alleged experiences at the hands of Joburg's metro cops might fan 2010 security issues afresh, with concerns regarding criminals being extended to concerns over the cops as well.
