The media: how powerful, exactly? - 12 May 2014

Almost on a daily basis, the media expose or report on yet another instance of corruption or police brutality and, as Anton Harber wrote last week on Bizcommunity.com, "Now the media is uninhibited in exposing government corruption and security force brutality. In fact, the work of investigative journalists led to the firing of the last police commissioner and the imprisonment of his predecessor, as well as the dismissal of three cabinet ministers." However, those who ended up sentenced to jail time, served little or no time, which is why Ed Herbst asks:
So who's gone to jail? and suggests that in fact, for a variety of reasons, the media is relatively impotent.

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