Response to Press Council Statement on Independent Media’s withdrawal from Press Council
24 October 2016
Independent Media notes the statement of the Press Council, dated 21 October, linking our withdrawal from the Press Council to Black Wednesday, which is synonymous with repressive Apartheid state action against the media in 1977.
We reject the comparison out of hand.
For the record, we state the following:
- The decision, in 2012, by Independent’s CEO, Tony Howard, to remove the waiver clause from the Press Code, was made prior to the acquisition of Independent Media by the Sekunjalo Consortium which was finalised in August 2013.