Bloggers react to news of Makhanya arrest

Posted: October 16th, 2007 | By Ray Hartley | Posted in General
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SOUTH Africa’s small but active blogging community has risen to the challenge of reporting on and commenting on the impending arrest of Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and journalist Jocelyn Maker.
By yesterday afternoon a yellow ribbon badge for press freedom, a widget showing the latest posts on the affair and a timeline had been developed and posted online.
Numerous blog posts had been filed linking to the original Sunday Times story on our website and international sites, such as that for the World Association of Newspapers had picked up the story. Go to www.thetimes.co.za and track the blogs.

Check out these posts:
The campaign gathers pace
Tracking Manto
Big call, arresting journalists
Outrage over editor’s imminent arrest

And many more here.

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Comments

 

Nic

October 16, 2007 at 8:45 am

Ray, I think this is a really bad list of bloggers who have spoken out… you have only chosen media blogs. While in actual fact the impressive thing about the blogosphere is that those who normally talk about sports, girls, and other things banded together and spoke about one single topic.

All you’ve really done is name the media blogs who spoke about the issue.

 

Carls

October 16, 2007 at 9:08 am

This is a media issue firstly but secondly if you feel so passionately about Ray’s “poor” list why not create your own. quick to critique!

 

Nic

October 16, 2007 at 9:11 am

This is a media issue, but Ray’s headline reads “Bloggers react” not media proffesionals react.

I was just making a point. And I think that The Times have compiled a fantastic list of references using Jaiku (which I have on SA Rocks) so why would I want to do something that has already been done?

Ray could simply have used the tools at his disposal to compile the list, as it is there already.

 

Ray Hartley

October 16, 2007 at 9:30 am

Nic, Carls – I didn’t want to duplicate the list of bloggers on our home page … :)

 

Nic

October 16, 2007 at 9:43 am

Fair point Ray!

 

Sarah Britten

October 16, 2007 at 10:33 am

Ray, I clicked on your list of bloggers and it took me to a story about Manto..?

 

Ray Hartley

October 16, 2007 at 11:26 am

My oops. fixed …

 

Bonginkosi

October 16, 2007 at 12:44 pm

I would like to find like-minded individuals who are prepared to take time off from work to PROTEST this nonsense on the days that Mondli and Jocelyn make their court appearances. Yes, expressing our outrage on blogs is good but I need us to take action.

The t-shirt idea is good. How about placards? And really loud voices?

Any takers? I am very serious!

 

Dion Forster

October 16, 2007 at 8:50 pm

Hi Ray,

Thanks for chronicling this event. I think that it is a truly significant shift in the manner in which the South African government will have to reconsider it’s heavy handed approach to press freedom. If the official channels of the media are stopped from reporting it will simply disseminate to smaller blogs.

I was one of the many who blogged about this sad state of affairs today (and added the yellow ribbon). It was encouraging to see how many persons did the same.

Whilst the small fry bloggers like me don’t normally generate much traffic, every bit helps!

Thanks again.

Dion
http://www.spirituality.org.za/blogger.html

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