The Malema story raises questions about the way the South African media in particular use SAPA; more specifically, the media's over-reliance on the press agency's copy.
"With ever tighter resources, stressed-out copy tasters and news editors and night editors trying to meet deadlines, if there happens to be a SAPA story sitting on the wires, waiting to be cut and pasted, slotted in, that's what happens," says SAPA editor Mark van der Velden. "It is a cop out to blame news agencies for the bland reproduction of wire agency copy. "
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