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5 MINUTES WITH NICKY FALKOF, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, WITS

When will the South African media narrative around fear and social inequality evolve?

The short answer is that I don’t know. The emphasis on risk, threat and fear seems to be endemic to much global media, rather than specific to South Africa. We could even speculate that passing on stories about danger and disaster is a feature, not a bug, part of what mass media do, one of the ways in which they gain audiences. It seems unlikely that the SA media narrative around

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