The news channels barely had time to rest before needing to cover yet anothr political event, the ANC presser.
SABC News took this one live (unsurprisingly), though their coverage was quite bare, only having one anchor in studio and leaving the conference first at 12:30 to show taped show Question Time. At lunch time, they provided very little extra coverage.
eNCA took the conference from the start as well with a political analyst in studio. They, however, left the conference at about 12:53 to get a bit of perspective from their analyst (they do not pay him for nothing, I suppose) and thn went to yet another weather bulletin (you can never get enough weather).
Hajra Omarjee, who has seemed quite foolish in her coverage for the day thus far declared that they (ANN7) will take the conference live when they feel like there is something meaty being said (nothing like deciding for your audience I suppose). After this, the news anchor read about 2 other stories before they too decided to opt in to the conference.
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Political Tuesday Coverage: DA-Agang SA Merger Announcement
So in the early hours of today the DA and Agang-SA announced that thy will be merging. This news was of course breaking news across the local news channels, except SABC News Cahnnel, of course.
I watched the 11:30 bulletin on eNCA, which was quite neutral in tone anchored by JoAnne Josephs and Gareth Edwards (both quit talented and supposed to have anchored this slot together for quite a few months now but hasn't been the case due to them being the go-to fill in anchors on other slots, meaning one usually anchors solo). They only covered it for a few minutes though before playing an extended report by Cathy Mohlanhlana took them to the top of the hour, followed by weather.
On News Day, Andrew Barnes is co-anchoring from outside the Townhouse where the announcement was made, providing more perspective.
On ANN7 though, I was quit shocked to see exactly how critical in tone Senior Political Correspondent Hajra Omarjee was of this merger, ridiculing it in anyway she could and mentioning things like this means Mamphela cannot stan by her word, etc. which is quite silly as politicians are known to change their views more drastically.
I watched the 11:30 bulletin on eNCA, which was quite neutral in tone anchored by JoAnne Josephs and Gareth Edwards (both quit talented and supposed to have anchored this slot together for quite a few months now but hasn't been the case due to them being the go-to fill in anchors on other slots, meaning one usually anchors solo). They only covered it for a few minutes though before playing an extended report by Cathy Mohlanhlana took them to the top of the hour, followed by weather.
On News Day, Andrew Barnes is co-anchoring from outside the Townhouse where the announcement was made, providing more perspective.
On ANN7 though, I was quit shocked to see exactly how critical in tone Senior Political Correspondent Hajra Omarjee was of this merger, ridiculing it in anyway she could and mentioning things like this means Mamphela cannot stan by her word, etc. which is quite silly as politicians are known to change their views more drastically.
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