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.

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  • David Smith is a world famous artist and a British Olympic hammer thrower. He is a curler for Scotland and Manitoba. A pro wrestler fondly known as the British Bulldog. A Canadian economist and a Mormon missionary they call the Sweet Singer of Israel. He is a British historian and a bishop. David Smith is the biographer of HG Wells, a professor of physics, a composer and a music teacher at Yale. He played rugby for Samoa, England and New Zealand. He created the Melissa worm, a deadly computer virus. He is the Guardian's man in Africa, he starred in a reality TV show and shot his way to silver in the 600m military rifle prone position at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. But this isn't that David Smith. This is the blog of the other David Smith. David J Smith. The one from Durban by the Sea. The one who lives in Amsterdam. Yes, him. The David Smith who likes to write about himself in the third person. To learn about all the other David Smiths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Smith To contact this David Smith: [email protected]

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