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What rhymes with dilemma? How a news blackout could happen

15 Apr 2010

Yusuf Abramjee, head of news and current affairs at Primedia and chairman of the National Press Club, has been the media's point man in terms of the reaction to the events of the past few weeks. He has revealed to The Daily Maverick what's been going on behind the scenes, and what it would take for a news boycott of Julius Malema to be put into practice.

On Tuesday, 13 April 2010, a column appeared in the Pretoria News under the header "There is still hope for this country". In South Africa, those seven words have been written so often - in that precise order - that they've just about been stripped of their meaning.

This time, however, was different. The picture on top of the header was of a well-known and respected face in media circles, and the name confirmed it: we were dealing here with someone deep on the inside, a person who not only had access to the facts while others were dealing in conjecture, but a person with the power to change things... In short, what he says matters.

Continue reading the full article on www.thedailymaverick.co.za.

Source: Daily Maverick

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Kevin Bloom

About Kevin Bloom

Kevin Bloom, associate editor of www.thedailymaverick.co.za, is an award-winning journalist, editor and author who has written for a wide array of South African and international publications. In his magazine career, he was the founding editor of The Media, editor-at-large of Maverick and joint editor of Empire. Email him at .