Coronavirus Vs Ebola: A Contrast in Fox News’ Coverage of the News

Fox News has been mis­in­form­ing the Amer­i­can pub­lic for decades. The U.S. TV audi­ence is very much vul­ner­a­ble and sus­cep­ti­ble to the lies which Fox News puts out. This is why Fox remains a rat­ing bonan­za. Their hypocrisy in the cov­er­age of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic com­pared to the cov­er­age of the Ebo­la epi­dem­ic is mind…

Elections in South Africa — A Media Review

Edi­tor’s Note: On May 8 South Africans will go to the polls to elect par­lia­men­tar­i­ans and provin­cial leg­is­la­tors in the coun­try’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions. In this analy­sis, Uni­qua Smith gives us a pre­view of the elec­tions by tak­ing a look at the major par­ties involved, the issues on the bal­lot, as well as how the election…

Post-Election Affairs in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Edi­tor’s Note: A lot has hap­pened in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go (DRC) since the Decem­ber 30, 2018 elec­tions. In this analy­sis, our own Uni­qua Smith scout­ed the web and oth­er sources for news and infor­ma­tion fol­low­ing the his­toric trans­fer of pow­er in the nation.  In the process of find­ing out what is tak­ing place Smith…

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Organizations Wage War on Fake News in Africa

The bat­tle to deal with deceit, mis­in­for­ma­tion, and its relat­ed ills, or fake news, has been on for many years. You’ll see me use the word “bat­tle” many times in my writ­ings on this sub­ject. It’s a bat­tle because the ter­rain is akin to war­fare. In a bat­tle where you either win or you lose,…

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Writing During Trump Era — 6 Things African Journalists Must Know

Writ­ing dur­ing the Don­ald Trump Era: It was crit­i­cal for those who advo­cat­ed on behalf of the African con­ti­nent, African blog­gers and jour­nal­ists espe­cial­ly, to take a stand and fight for the con­ti­nent we believe in. African blog­gers need to have a voice on the inter­net, just as the mil­i­tary has a voice on the…

Three Inaccuracies Identified in Cameroon Story by KUSA 9 News

Edi­tor’s Note: The orig­i­nal KUSA 9 News sto­ry was pub­lished in Feb­ru­ary 2016 but we returned to it because of how impor­tant it is. The Cameroon sit­u­a­tion con­tin­ues into 2018 and many fear it could lead to a full-scale civ­il war in the coun­try. The South­ern Cameroons issue which is plagu­ing the African nation of…