News24's ongoing coronaporn
Was it necessary to front such an aggressively prescriptive editorial line?
News24 took the approach the socialist Morning Star adopts today, but without the train wreck of government incompetence the latter intends to establish itself upon.
The strategy was unoriginal and unimaginative. Borrowing heavily from global media responses that sought to shift blame, diminish China’s involvement or encourage the censorship of opposing narratives, the website embarked on castigation propaganda and shame:
Naspers recent announcement that its legacy media interests are smelling a bit like week-old fish is hardly surprising given the peculiar evolution of News24, from its occasionally entertaining investigative specials with warm Sarie foundations to the present, foot-stamping, Vox-ish indignation.