Why does JZ want to gag the media?

I am not sure why JZ wants to gag the media because the media does a pretty good job of gagging itself. Through the selective targeting of the wealthy classes, papers like the Sunday Times, the Argus, and the Mail & Guardian effectively silence themselves.

They don’t speak to the ordinary people of this country. You and me may like to think of ourselves as everyday blokes, the man on the street, but we are not. We have the internet, we have a street, we have a house and a car and all that. I am talking about the guy who walks the street, catches a taxi to work, gets his pay cheque in a manila envelope, has an ID book and not a passport. These are the people who can actually change government’s in this country, these are the people who brought down the last government and they can bring down this government. But the only newspapers aimed at them are hokey tabloids like the Daily Sun and Die Son. Papers that think a story of a headless chicken possessed by demons is more interesting than a government possessed by demons. Even a paper like the Sowetan that does a fairly good job of straddling the middle class and the working class spends most of its energy covering celebrity news and glitzy bling blah.

If the media is going to actually make a dent and fight corruption, it needs to speak to JZ’s voter base. The people who are NOT reading this blog post on their boss’s dime. Tell them why our government is rubbish, talk to them about the corruption that runs through the halls of Parliament. Speaking to people like me and you is like backing the DA. A waste of bloody time.