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In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser Episode 2 - DON'T FALSELY SHOUT "HE HAILED HITLER!" IN A NEWSROOM. Part 1
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:38:58
Publish Date: 2021-04-21 05:00:00
Description:

In the first of a two-part series, we focus on a debate sparked by a lecture by UCT academic Dr Lwazi Lushaba on the history of the study of politics. The online lectuee has now been widely reported on. The Sunday Times reported him as stating that Hitler "committed no crime" based on, by their own admission, 12 seconds taken from a 54 minute video. They declared him "Mampara of the week", 'mampara' being local slang for 'loser'. 


We explore here, in Part One, how truth, evidence and context are smudged by hasty journalism that aims purely to sell product rather than getting the story correct. We examine the implications for democracy and discourse generally. 


Chris Roper, deputy CEO of Code for Africa, drops in and carefully explains the factors in our newsrooms that account for such evidence-averse journalism, and warns about the implications for the value of truth. 
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