L’affaire Bullard confirms that SA journalism is not immune to the pressures and problems besetting our British brothers exposed and trawled over by Nick Davies in Flat Earth News (Chatto & Windus, 2008). With 47 800 PR spin doctors spinning away in the UK versus 45 000 journos, no wonder 88% of British newspaper stories are “churnalism” according to a recent study by the School of Journalism of Cardiff University. Read More…