NEWSWATCH: As we all know, instead of hitting the streets this week, The New Age hit rock bottom when five editors walked. It seems a showdown over the paper's readiness to launch (and other issues) might have been behind the resignations, reports Mail & Guardian. Meanwhile, the ANC in KZN is very cross because the media's coverage of DA doings was not apparently enough, reports IOL.
For more:
Mail & Guardian: Behind the New Age meltdown... This is not good Atul, sorry... at all, is it! Apart from not being ready, in the opinion of the very people who would be editing the thing, The New Age apparently didn't have/hasn't got sufficient resources and Atul Gupta, representing the owners, apparently 'wouldn't listen' when concerns were voiced. Hmmm... how not to launch a newspaper.
IOL: ANC slams coverage of DA resignation... Aah, shame... So the ruling party is miffed because the media didn't report 'sufficiently' on the KZN DA leader resigning - as leader, not from the party - and reckons it's further proof of a need for 'media regulatory measures'. This is a new one... Instead of being moaned about for what they did report, they're now being moaned at for what they didn't report. At this rate, media will be slammed for not reporting on Zuma opening an envelope.
ConstitutionallySpeaking.co.za: The New Age needs you.... (The newspaper is already advertising the five newly vacant positions on its site in popup window.)
