Re: Corrections of misrepresentations and plan of action
The R2K EVENT
The Movement for Transformation of the Media in South Africa (MTMSA) held a successful event outside the INL offices in Cape Town yesterday. Both on online and traditional media platforms there has been a lot of misinformation and untruths have been propagated by the R2K campaign, their supports and by journalists, which are doing the rounds.
Today we are dispelling those myths and legends drafted by mostly white antagonists who want to drown out the issue of transformation in the media by making this about politics or so called "Press Freedom". The truth is; Can one have true press freedom if the owners and gate keepers like management staff and editors are all white? Why does R2K picket outside a black owned media house when a white owned media house like Times Media has fired 5 black editors in the past years? Where were their pickets then?
R2K's demonstration proved one point yesterday and that is, that 95% of their supporters who turned up to protest, that were numbered less than 50, were white. We can show you the pictures and you can judge for yourself. MTMSA and R2K should be allies - if we take the basic ideology of press freedom, but we have a fundamental difference in the fact that their definition of press freedom is about defending white privilege and dominance.
Some of the myths and lies propagated about MTMSA include that we are somehow linked to Dr Surve or INL or that we are funded by them. These are lies, fallacies and propaganda by those who are against the transformation agenda, particularly the ‘right2know campaign' and their allied journalists.