Tonight: EMBEDDED @ MARIKANA: MEDIA AND MASSACRE
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Mark Weinberg @ AIDC
Aug 30, 2012, 11:05:43 AM8/30/12
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Tune into www.capetowntv.org tonight (30 August) at 9pm for Free
Media, Free Minds! as we examine the role of the mass media in the
Marikana Massacre.
For two weeks now we have seen most of the media reporting from the
perceptive of the police and official sources (government, Lonim, and
unions officials). The voice of workers on the ground has been largely
absent.
On the day of the Massacre the media was embedded behind police lines
where they reported that the strikers rushed at the police. However
there is now significant information on social media and websites
suggesting that workers where fleeing the bullets when they rushed for
a gap that the police had left in their barbed-wire barricade
(supposedly put up for their protection). Of the estimated 3000
protesters on the 'mountain', TV news footage show a handful of
workers shot trying to escape through this gap in the barbed-wire. We
now know that most of the 3000 workers fled away from the embedded
media. The majority of workers killed or injured where shot in the
back or run over by police Nyala as they lay on the ground seeking
cover - out of sight from the media.
But no news media present on the day seem to have taken the short walk
to examine the sites where the majority of miners were attacked. It
now appears to be a premeditated act of state oppression.
The questions remains: Why is the mass media (SABC, eTV, and our
commercial press) not sharing information that suggests the Massacre
was a premeditated act of state oppression?
This information is already the public domain on-line reports like
this: http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-08-30-the-murder-fields-of-marikana-the-cold-murder-fields-of-marikana
Our guests in studio are Martin Jansen (Workers Works Media
Productions) and Mabhelandile Twani (Progressive Youth Movement).
Tune in or watch the live stream on www.capetowntv.org. Catch the
repeat on Sunday at 7pm.
Find details of other episodes here:
http://www.communitymedia.org.za/alt-media-resources/287-fmfm2012
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Mark Weinberg
t 0214472525
c 0741036704
ma...@aidc.org.za
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www.amandla.org.za
www.communitymedia.org.za
Media, Free Minds! as we examine the role of the mass media in the
Marikana Massacre.
For two weeks now we have seen most of the media reporting from the
perceptive of the police and official sources (government, Lonim, and
unions officials). The voice of workers on the ground has been largely
absent.
On the day of the Massacre the media was embedded behind police lines
where they reported that the strikers rushed at the police. However
there is now significant information on social media and websites
suggesting that workers where fleeing the bullets when they rushed for
a gap that the police had left in their barbed-wire barricade
(supposedly put up for their protection). Of the estimated 3000
protesters on the 'mountain', TV news footage show a handful of
workers shot trying to escape through this gap in the barbed-wire. We
now know that most of the 3000 workers fled away from the embedded
media. The majority of workers killed or injured where shot in the
back or run over by police Nyala as they lay on the ground seeking
cover - out of sight from the media.
But no news media present on the day seem to have taken the short walk
to examine the sites where the majority of miners were attacked. It
now appears to be a premeditated act of state oppression.
The questions remains: Why is the mass media (SABC, eTV, and our
commercial press) not sharing information that suggests the Massacre
was a premeditated act of state oppression?
This information is already the public domain on-line reports like
this: http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-08-30-the-murder-fields-of-marikana-the-cold-murder-fields-of-marikana
Our guests in studio are Martin Jansen (Workers Works Media
Productions) and Mabhelandile Twani (Progressive Youth Movement).
Tune in or watch the live stream on www.capetowntv.org. Catch the
repeat on Sunday at 7pm.
Find details of other episodes here:
http://www.communitymedia.org.za/alt-media-resources/287-fmfm2012
--
Mark Weinberg
t 0214472525
c 0741036704
ma...@aidc.org.za
www.aidc.org.za
www.amandla.org.za
www.communitymedia.org.za
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