Monday, 11 February 2008

Community Media Taken For Granted

The South African Community Media (community radio stations, and community newspapers) are taken for granted.
I say this not because I am trying to attack anyone, or not maybe because of I have got nothing to say, but because it is a fact.
How many community radio station programmme managers, or even worse, managers that you know have formal journalistic training- very few.
How many community newspaper journalists are in possession of journalistic or media qualifications- still very few, I say.
So then how do we expect community media to function at the best possible levels? How can we expect a programme manager having only a matric certificate to understand radio programming?
What is happening in many community media is discusting and a stop should be put to it or else many community media will remain more like spaza( a small stall) shops.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah! I agree like some communty radio station were I live.

Anonymous said...

This is a great blog I have to say. Community media really needs a revamp. sure Madimetja