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<title><![CDATA[Who's negative - the DA or the media?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a contention that pops up in the media from time to time - usually on the editorial an]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There's a contention that pops up in the media from time to time - usually on the editorial and opinion pages - that the <a title="Democratic Alliance Website" href="http://da.org.za" target="_blank">Democratic Alliance</a> is too negative - that it only criticises and never offers its own solutions. It is never presented as the central thesis of a substantiated argument (that would be difficult, I would argue); rather, it is almost always a throw-away line - a cliché even. But does it hold up to scrutiny?</p>
<p>Fortuitously, <a title="Mandy de Waal's THought Leader post" href="http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/mandydewaal/2008/06/11/who-owns-your-mind/" target="_blank">Mandy de Waal</a> published an interview with <a title="Media Tenor SA website" href="http://www.mediatenor.co.za/" target="_blank">Media Tenor SA</a> CEO Wadim Schreiner on <a title="Thought Leader home page" href="http://thoughtleader.co.za" target="_blank">Thought Leader</a> yesterday that provides excellent background for this post. Among other things, it looks at how the media's agenda setting plays a role in how politicians and political parties (or any institution or personality, for that matter - Cape Judge President John Hlophe is another case in point) are represented and perceived.</p>
<p>The <a title="Democratic Alliance Website" href="http://da.org.za" target="_blank">Democratic Alliance (DA)</a> is certainly a straight-talking, no-nonsense, critical opposition, and unapologetic about it. It's also what the overwhelming majority of our supporters, as well as a significant proportion of voters who don't yet vote for the DA, want from us.</p>
<p>In market research we recently commissioned, voters were asked whether they thought the DA was too critical, not critical enough, or just about right. Only 32 % of black voters - the market in which the DA needs to gain support in order to grow - think the DA is too critical; 15 % think we are not critical enough; and 39 % think we get our criticism just about right (margin of error of 2%). Among white voters - the majority of the DA's current support base - 58 % think the DA is not critical enough; a further 36 % think we get it just about right. Only 2 % think we are too critical.</p>
<p>But the DA is by no means only critical. It also offers <a title="DA discussion documents" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/campaigns/discussion.asp" target="_blank">analysis </a>of the numerous challenges the state faces - the better to identify the root of problems - and <a title="DA position papers" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/campaigns/position.asp" target="_blank">proposes</a> <a title="DA Policy Documents" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/Policies/Directorate.asp" target="_blank">solutions </a>to many of those problems. This is something that all voters - regardless of who they voted for, or intend to vote for - want from an opposition party.</p>
<p><a title="DA performance audit 2007" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=8461" target="_blank"><!--more-->The DA produced some 30 new policy and discussion documents in 2007</a>, including an <a title="5 proposals to make ASGISA work" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=7302" target="_blank">analysis of</a> <a title="ASGISA on info.gov.za" href="http://www.info.gov.za/asgisa/" target="_blank">ASGISA </a><a title="DA document on occupational skills development" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=8342" target="_blank">and</a> <a title="info.gov.za on JIPSA" href="http://www.info.gov.za/vukuzenzele/Pages/jipsa(1).htm" target="_blank">JIPSA</a>, reports on government spending, the public health sector, education, audit outcomes and an <a title="DA alternative budget 2007" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=7333" target="_blank">alternative budget</a>. It also produced policy documents on <a title="DA discussion document on victims of crime" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=7725" target="_blank">victims of crime</a>, <a title="DA's 26 pt action plan on violence in schools" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=8378" target="_blank">violence in schools</a>, <a title="DA discussion document on alternative medicines" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=7923" target="_blank">alternative medicines</a>, and <a title="DA discussion document on unemployment and red tape" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=8282" target="_blank">unemployment</a>.</p>
<p><a title="DA performance audit 2006" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/campaigns/daperf.asp" target="_blank">The party also produced some 40 new policy and discussion documents in 2006</a>, including a review of the <a title="DA discussion document on the criminal justice system" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=7123" target="_blank">criminal justice system</a>, a series of policies on <a title="DA proposals to help small business" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/News.asp?tempDay=0&#38;tempMonth=0&#38;tempYear=0&#38;author=0&#38;keyword=helping%20small%20business&#38;Val=2" target="_blank">helping small business</a>, an overview of the <a title="DA Analysis of the worst performing state schools" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=7171" target="_blank">state of public education</a> and an <a title="DA alternative budget 2006" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=6194" target="_blank">alternative budget</a>.</p>
<p>In addition, it submitted six private members' legislative proposals in each of 2006 and 2007. Only one other opposition party has submitted a bill in either of the two years.</p>
<p>So the contentions that "the DA only criticises" and "the DA is always negative" do not stand up to scrutiny of the facts (or the broad majority of people's perceptions). But that doesn't mean that the perceptions don't exist - albeit (according to our research) among a minority of people.</p>
<p>I contend that these perceptions are largely held and, in turn, propagated by members of the media (including contributing political commentators and analysts). I also contend that the media is generally extremely negative - there seems to be an accepted wisdom that bad news sells newspapers and headlines scream warnings, doom and gloom more often than not.</p>
<p>As an example, the DA has recently made a point of regularly releasing statements which are only positive; they pick up on positive stories in the media and highlight them as examples - microcosms, even - of the <a title="DA statements on the Open Opportunity Society in action" href="http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/News/News.asp?tempDay=0&#38;tempMonth=0&#38;tempYear=0&#38;author=0&#38;keyword=open%20opportunity%20society&#38;Val=2" target="_blank">DA's vision of an Open Opportunity Society for All in action</a>.</p>
<p>The first point is that these statements have disappeared pretty much without a trace in the media. One would think that, in the context of the media perception that the DA is negative and critical, these statements would be quite newsworthy - if not in and of themselves, then as a series (based on the "<a title="Wiki on Man bites dog (journalism)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog_(journalism)" target="_blank">Man bites dog</a>" mantra of newsworthiness).</p>
<p>However, what is even more to the point is that it is quite a struggle to find even one such story per day - especially in the mainstream media. Try it yourself: choose whichever newspaper or news portal you usually read, and make a conscious effort to count the good news stories on the main news and politics pages (or anywhere outside of sports and leisure).</p>
<p>I think that the media's perception (and representation) of the DA is driven partly by this general negative approach, and partly by the strength of the DA's brand - built over the last 15 years - of being a strong, forthright and critical opposition. For both those reasons, many journalists automatically look for the negative in what we say - (a) because that's what they expect from the DA, and (b) because that's what gets published (ask any journalist, they hate having their stories dropped).</p>
<p>In conclusion, let me leave you with a good example of the different ways in which the media can represent the DA's communication:</p>
<p>On Monday, DA leader <a title="Helen Zille's blog" href="http://helenzille.co.za" target="_blank">Helen Zille</a> and health spokesperson Mike Waters addressed a press conference about the party's proposed alternatives to the minister's National Health Amendment Bill. The DA's discussion document, <a title="DA discussion document on restructuring the health sector" href="http://www.da.org.za/DA/Site/Eng/News/Article.asp?ID=8989" target="_blank">Partners in Health</a>, provides a comprehensive analysis of the twin problems of expensive private health care and deteriorating public health care, as well as a number of concrete proposals on how best  to address these problems. It also provides a critique of the government's approach as set out in the Bill. This is important, because it provides the context in which the DA's proposals are made. But it's quite difficult to ignore the positive proposals in covering the story.</p>
<p>Most news portals took their copy from SAPA, which wrote quite a positive story leading with the DA's key proposals, but here is a <a title="Google News results on DA health plan" href="http://news.google.com/?ncl=1221000015&#38;hl=en&#38;scoring=d" target="_blank">list of headlines</a> I picked up on this story, from most positive to most negative:</p>
<p><a title="Politicsweb on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=91340&#38;sn=Detail" target="_blank">How to fix public health care - DA : Politicsweb</a>, which republished the DA's statement in its original form. Anyone reading this headline gets the message - loud and clear - that the DA is providing solutions to South Africa's problems - something that voters want from the opposition.</p>
<p><a title="Daily Dispatch on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=211735" target="_blank">DA's grand plan for SA's State hospitals : Daily Dispatch</a>. A little less explicit about solutions, but it's still clear that the DA is making positive policy proposals; still very positive.</p>
<p><a title="News24 on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2337437,00.html" target="_blank">DA presents new hospital plan : News24</a>. Same as above, although not quite as 'grand' :)</p>
<p><a title="IOL on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&#38;click_id=125&#38;art_id=nw20080609123952178C266385" target="_blank">Let private sector run state hospitals - DA : IOL</a>. It's a bit of an over-simplification of our proposal (read the story to get a clearer picture), which is sure to rile the ANC and its alliance partners, but it is still focussing on a solution proposed by the DA. Still positive. <a title="Health24 on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.health24.com/news/Health_care/1-918,46714.asp" target="_blank">Health24</a> and the <a title="M&#38;G on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&#38;articleid=341591" target="_blank">M&#38;G</a> had slight variations on this headline.</p>
<p><a title="Business Day on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A782127" target="_blank">Zille says health bill will drive skills away : Business Day</a>. This story focusses on the negative. It leads with the critique of the bill, and in fact only mentions the policy document, but doesn't cite any of the proposals in the document. For anyone who thinks that the DA only criticises, this story would reinforce that view (especially if he/she doesn't read all the way to the mention of the policy document in the third-last paragraph).</p>
<p><a title="Legalbrief on the DA's Health Plan" href="http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20080610082322125" target="_blank">Zille says new health bill will force up prices : Legalbrief</a>. The same story and similar headline to Business Day. The same applies.</p>
<p>I could probably have gone through the archives and come up with numerous examples of critical-but-relatively-balanced DA press releases that have been covered as "DA slams govt...". I chose rather to discuss this example because it illustrates very well the different ways in which the same DA media release can be covered.</p>
<p>I also didn't write this post in order to demonise the media for being negative or anti-DA. I hope that it will stimulate a little introspection among decision-makers in the media, and perhaps a bit of a debate about the media's role in how political parties and personalities are perceived.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Media Tenor = Media Terror pleite]]></title>
<link>http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?p=309</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Manchmal macht es richtig Spass, die Verlinkungen dieses Blogs zu analysieren. Sonst wären wir nie ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Manchmal macht es richtig Spass, die Verlinkungen dieses Blogs zu analysieren. Sonst wären wir nie auf die Site <b><a href="http://mediaterror.wikispaces.com/" title="Media Terror, Media Tenor" target="_blank">Media Terror</a></b> gestoßen, wo ehemalige Kunden, Lieferanten / Partner und Mitarbeiter alles über die dubiosen <strike>Meinungspfuscher</strike> Meinungsanalytiker von <b>Media Tenor</b> sammeln. Dann wären wir auch nicht auf diesen Artikel im General-Anzeiger gestolpert, welcher über die <a href="http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index.php?k=news&#38;itemid=10002&#38;detailid=417664" title="Remagener Medienanalysefirma Media Tenor ist zahlungsunfähig" target="_blank"><b>Insolvenz des Media Tenor</b></a> berichtet.</p>
<p>Im <a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/media-tenor-mal-wieder-pleite/" title="Media Tenor mal wieder pleite?">November vergangenen Jahres</a> hatte der <b>Media Tenor</b> fluchtartig seine Geschäftsräume in <b>Bonn</b> verlassen und neue Räumlichkeiten in <b>Rolandseck</b> bezogen, ohne alle Mitarbeiter zu informieren und zu übernehmen. Vermieter und Versorger waren offenbar ebenfalls mit offenen Forderungen zurückgelassen worden. Am 7. März fand die <b>Gläubigerversammlung</b> statt. Interessant dürfte vor allem sein, ob die Arbeitsverhältnisse der in Bonn zurückgelassenen Mitarbeiter fortbestanden und ob es sich bei der <b>Media Tenor International</b> mit Sitz in Lugano (Schweiz) möglicherweise um einen <b>Betriebsübergang</b> handelt, der den Mitarbeitern und Gläubigern auch Zugriff auf das Vermögen von Media Tenor International erlauben könnte. Möglicherweise könnte auch ein Strafverfahren wegen einer Insolvenz-Straftat gegen den Media Tenor-Geschäftsführer Roland Schatz folgen.</p>
<p>Bereits im Jahr 2005 hatte <b>Roland Schatz</b> schon einmal mit seinem damals unter dem Namen <b>Medien Tenor</b> firmierenden Unternehmen eine Insolvenz hingelegt. Offenbar sind gerade schlechte Zeiten für pseudo-wissenschaftliche Lügen, Meinungsmanipulation und dumme Propaganda, welche er unter anderem an die asozialen Hetzer von der <b>BILD-Zeitung</b> verkaufte. <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_D%C3%B6pfner" title="Mathias Döpfner" target="_blank"><b>Mathias Döpfner</b></a>, Vorstandschef der Axel Springer AG, welche die BILD-Zeitung herausgibt, saß übrigens über Jahre hinweg im <a href="http://www.taz.de/1/leben/medien/artikel/1/media-tenor-in-insolvenz/?src=MT&#38;cHash=b3b6e7f3f6" title="Media Tenor in Insolvenz - Ex-Mitarbeiter verklagen Analysefirma" target="_blank">Beirat des Media Tenor</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Läßt der insolvente Media Tenor bei Wikipedia herumpfuschen?]]></title>
<link>http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/last-der-insolvente-media-tenor-bei-wikipedia-herumpfuschen/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Ich schlage vor, den Artikel zu loeschen. Ich denke einer der eitlen Mitarbeiter dies]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Es <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Media_Tenor" title="Media Tenor, Medien Tenor, Roland Schatz, Diskussion" target="_blank">scheint</a> so:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Ich schlage vor, den Artikel zu loeschen. Ich denke einer der eitlen Mitarbeiter dieses Etablissements wollte hier seinem Broetchengeber huldigen...</em></p>
<p><em>Der Artikel ist in der Tat völlig unausgewogen und reines White-Paper-Blabla; berechtigte Kritik an Media-Tenor wird anscheinend immer wieder gelöscht.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Sehr interessant ist auch das in der Diskussion verlinkte Word-Dokument <strong><a href="http://egora.uni-muenster.de/ifk/personen/bindata/MEDIEN.DACHSE.TEN%D6RE.doc" title="Uni Münster: Medien, Dachse und Tenöre, Klaus Merten, Mediendax, Media Tenor, Medien Tenor" target="_blank">Medien, Dachse &#38; Tenöre</a></strong> von Klaus Merten et al.:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Aus gegebener Veranlassung (S.36) haben die Autor/Innen deutliche Zweifel an der Validität dieses Rankings angemeldet. Die erste Analyse zeigt, dass der<strong> Mediendax 30</strong> gravierende methodische Defekte besitzt, die es definitiv verbieten, ihn als wissenschaftliches Instrument zu akzeptieren (S.41). Eine sorgfältige Replikation belegt sodann, statistisch hochsignifikant, dass der Mediendax 30 gleich <strong>doppelt manipuliert</strong> ist: Zum einen manipuliert das Instrument (strukturelle Manipulation): Sieger ist nicht das Unternehmen mit der jeweils besten Bewertung, sondern das Unternehmen mit einer eher stark negativen Bewertung (S.43ff).</p>
<p>Zum anderen zeigt sich, dass 17 der 30 Unternehmen des Mediendax 30, darunter auch der "Sieger", wegen klarer <strong>Verletzung der von Medien Tenor selbst gesetzten Mindestanforderungen</strong> überhaupt nicht in das Ranking hätten aufgenommen werden dürfen (S.92), aber doch aufgenommen worden sind (vorsätzliche Manipulation). Der Mediendax 30 weist also mitnichten den Kommunikationschef ("Sieger") mit der besten Medienperformance aus, sondern allenfalls eine Win-Win-Gratifikation für erfolgreiche Akquise in Kooperation mit dem Trägermedium pressesprecher (S. 100ff.). Damit erhärtet die vorgelegte Replikation die Kritik, die schon öfter an der Validität der Analysen von Medien Tenor geübt worden ist, ganz entschieden. Zudem gilt: Die hier festgestellte Manipulation stellt keinen Einzelfall dar, sondern ist in allen weiteren Ausgaben des pressesprecher zu beobachten (S.108). Vor der Folie von Mediengesellschaft können solche Fälle nicht überraschen: Fälschungen aller Art werden zunehmen (S.117ff.). <strong>Für das Berufsfeld PR signalisiert dieser Fall dagegen einen Rückschlag, das alte "Schmuddelimage" der Branche lebt neu auf</strong> (S.124).   </em></p></blockquote>
<p>In der Tat hat das <strong>Schmuddelimage</strong> der PR-Branche in der jüngeren Vergangenheit wieder an Gewicht gewonnen. Dazu tragen nicht nur unseriöse Manipulationsklitschen wie der <strong><a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=Media+Tenor" title="Media Tenor">Media Tenor</a> / <a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=Medien+Tenor" title="Medien Tenor">Medien Tenor</a></strong> bei, sondern auch das manipulative Treiben neoliberaler Ganoven wie der <strong><a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=Initiative+Neue+Soziale+Marktwirtschaft" title="Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft">Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft</a> (<a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=INSM" title="INSM">INSM</a>)</strong> , dem <strong><a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=Institut+zur+Zukunft+der+Arbeit" title="Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, IZA Bonn">Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit</a> (<a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=IZA" title="IZA">IZA Bonn</a>)</strong>, des <a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=B%C3%BCrgerKonvent" title="Bürgerkonvent, Bonn, Meinhard Miegel, Lobbyismus für die Versicherungswirtschaft"><strong>BürgerKonvents</strong></a> und des <a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=Konvent+f%C3%BCr+Deutschland" title="Konvent für Deutschland"><strong>Konvents für Deutschland</strong></a>. Die Art und der Umfang der Manipulationen durch solche <em>Lautsprecher des Kapitals</em> streben bereits <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels, Nationalsozialismus, Propaganda" target="_blank">Göbbels</a>-Niveau an. Und all die wirtschaftsfaschistische Propaganda dieser Organisationen findet sich früher oder später in der <strong>Springer-Presse</strong> wieder, vor allem in der <strong>BILD</strong>.</p>
<p>Noch Fragen?</p>
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<link>http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/media-tenor-mal-wieder-pleite/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wir berichteten bereits über das Bonner &#8220;Medienanalyse&#8221;-Institut Media Tenor von Roland]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wir berichteten bereits über das Bonner "Medienanalyse"-Institut <a href="http://insmwatchblog.wordpress.com/?s=media+tenor" title="Media Tenor, Medien Tenor, Roland Schatz"><strong>Media Tenor</strong></a> von <strong>Roland Schatz</strong>, das unter einerseits mit unseriösen, teils manipulativen Methoden arbeitet und andererseits den <strong>Axel Springer-Verlag</strong> mit Daten für dessen billige Kampagnen in der <strong>BILD</strong> versorgt.</p>
<p>Laut eines <a href="http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index.php?k=news&#38;itemid=10002&#38;detailid=380193" title="General-Anzeiger Bonn: Mitarbeiter von Media Tenor ohne Lohn und Büro" target="_blank">Berichts</a> im Bonner General-Anzeiger hat der <strong>Media Tenor</strong> sein Bonner Büro fluchtartig verlassen und ist nun in Rolandseck in Rheinland-Pfalz zu finden. Vermieter, Energieversorger, Finanzbehörden und Mitarbeiter warten auf ihr Geld:</p>
<blockquote><p><em> Es geht um zu wenig oder gar nicht gezahlte Löhne. Die Beschäftigten klagen gegen ihren Arbeitgeber, der noch gut 80 Mitarbeiter beschäftigt. "Im Raum steht ferner die Drohung des Managements, den Standort in Deutschland komplett zu schließen, wenn diese Klagen nicht zurückgenommen werden", sagt der Rechtsvertreter der Kläger, Alexander Gerhards.</p>
<p>Inzwischen ist die Firma von Bonn nach Rolandseck umgezogen, Sitz der Holding ist mittlerweile Lugano in der Schweiz. Die Bonner Büroräume an der Kurt-Schumacher-Straße wurden seitens des Vermieters offenbar wegen Mietrückständen gekündigt, und auch der Energieversorger drehte wegen offener Rechnungen die Hähne zu.</p>
<p>Unbezahlt blieben wohl auch Forderungen der örtlichen Finanzbehörde - nach GA-Informationen eine sechsstellige Summe. Ein Insolvenzverfahren über die Firma Media Tenor ist nach Auskunft des Amtsgerichts Bonn nicht eröffnet worden. Zudem ist unklar, ob Richter in Bonn oder, wegen des Firmenumzugs nach Rolandseck, Richter in Rheinland-Pfalz zuständig sind.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Im Jahr 2005 hatte der <strong>Media Tenor</strong> schon einmal Insolvenz anmelden müssen. Lügen und Manipulationen scheinen nicht besonders viele Abnehmer zu finden, während die unseriöse Arbeitsweise dem Ruf des <strong>Media Tenor</strong> weiter vorauseilt wie die Ratten im Mittelalter der Pest. Im Falle der Insolvenz sollte <strong>Roland Schatz</strong> eine mögliche Neugründung lieber mir einem passenden Namen versehen, beispielsweise <strong>Lügen Tenor</strong> oder <strong>Propaganda Tenor</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Wir wünschen dem Media Tenor ein frohes Dahinsiechen!</strong> :mrgreen:</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why, when the HIV/Aids pandemic in South Africa is among the worst in the world, does the South African media pay such little attention to it? According to a study by <a href="http://www.mediatenor.co.za/">Media Tenor</a> from 2004-2005, the South African media devoted less than one percent of its coverage to the pandemic. In an <a href="http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v9/v9i4a8.htm">article</a> published in the latest African Studies Quarterly (available free online), Sean Jacobs and Krista Johnson put it down to a range of reasons relating to the way the South African media is structured political-economically as well as the journalistic conventions and routines it operates within. The result of the confluence of these structural and journalistic factors was a trivialisation of HIV/Aids and a sensational approach to the conflicts between government and social movements.<br />The media's poor record in this regard, the authors argue, is part of the democratic deficit in the country. For a media industry that is very vocal about its 'independence' and 'freedom', their efforts in response to the tragic proportions that HIV/Aids have taken in the country have just not been good enough.</p>
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