'ANN' now you have it ... Gupta-TV... Gulp!

NEWSWATCH: You have to feel for the presenters, but let's face it, the launch of ANN7 was... well, you decide (videos). Still on ANN7, Mail & Guardian reports former main man in government communications, Jimmy 'Straight-talking' Manyi, could be SA's answer to Oprah... or not. The publication also reports that SA's news media mogul, Iqbal Survé, has threatened to 'expose' Mail & Guardian.

By Rod Baker

23 Aug 2013

'ANN' now you have it ... Gupta-TV... Gulp!

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Mail & Guardian: Gupta-TV launch met with a series of WTFs? OK, look, we shouldn't mock others when they are clearly going through Hell, but let's face it... it started going downhill from "Hello, I am..."
Here are some videos for you... on the bright side, it can only get better, right?*
And here's one in which the Aussie captain has apparently had a sex change...
That's enough to make the eyes water.
*After these videos were posted on YouTube, they were taken down or disabled, but since then what EWN refers to as a Cape Town TV critic has called for the YouTube video clips to be restored.
Mail & Guardian: Jimmy Manyi: Gupta TV's Oprah... Here's...Jimmyyyyy... could he be SA's answer to Oprah, oh could he?
Mail & Guardian: Iqbal Survé threatens to 'expose' M&G... and in the 'cloak without dagger / I smell a conspiracy' department, South Africa's newest newspaper mogul, Iqbal Survé, says he might 'expose' the Mail & Guardian. Mail & Guardian reports him as suggesting the publication might be 'controlled by the CIA'.
Shades of "'Allo', 'Allo'... Zis is Night'awk... What are our instructions for today? 'Oo do we trash?"
The mind boggles... as if the CIA hasn't got enough on its plate what with Egypt, Syria, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange etc.

Rod Baker

About Rod Baker

Rod Baker is Content Director at Bizcommunity.com. A journalist since before computers, he worked on a wide range of magazines and, in his youth, rose through the ranks from being a lowly and abused sub-editor, to a high and still abused editor and publisher. He has been editor and publisher of a number of magazines, as well as a newspaper. He has edited many books, and written a number too. Email him at moc.ytinummoczib@dor.