Comment whether our media reflects on article 16 of south African bill of rights when reporting?
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section 16 of south african bill of rights states “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, which includes freedom of the press and other media; freedom to receive or impart information or ideas"
News shall be presented in context and in a balanced manner, without any intentional or negligent departure from the facts whether by distortion, exaggeration or misrepresentation, material omissions, or summarisation .
usually indian media exaggerates news to meke it more interesting and appealing to the viewers.They want to gather more breaking news and usually they broadcastnews with a very little amount of information.
While there are also news channels like NDTV which focus on delivering a detailed report of news they broadcast.
so, indian media, in some way, they kind of do not reflect on section 16
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Answer:
Freedom of the Press is safeguarded by Section 16 of the Constitution, which states: "Everybody has the privilege to opportunity of articulation, which incorporates opportunity of the press and different media."
Explanation:
The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) perceives the outrageous significance of naturally safeguarded press opportunity. Under the harsh politically-sanctioned racial segregation system, going before South Africa's Constitutional majority rules government, opportunity of articulation, especially that of the media was seriously smothered. This suppression happened for the sake of alleged 'public interests', especially to quiet resistance toward the bigot and inconsistent approaches of politically-sanctioned racial segregation.
The Commission is worried about assaults on media experts and notes the new goes after on writers during fights in the North West, as well as assaults on columnists and the annihilation of cameras and media gear during the Nedbank Cup semi-last match in April 2018. These don't drill well for press opportunity in South Africa.
Previous President Nelson Mandela, as the principal justly chose leader of South Africa, perceived the crucial job an expense media plays when he said: "A free press is one of the mainstays of a vote based system."
A free press guarantees that majority rule government flourishes through the scattering of data, through teaching the overall crowded and by considering people with great influence to be responsible. A free press can cover debasement, maltreatment of force and the infringement of naturally safeguarded privileges inside the Bill of Rights, Chapter Two of the Constitution.
This assessment is reverberated by the previous Constitutional Court judge, Justice Kate O'Regan in South African National Defense Union v Minister of Defense and Another, when she expressed: "Opportunity of articulation lies at the core of a majority rules government. It is significant for some reasons, including its instrumental capacity as an underwriter of a majority rule government, its implied acknowledgment and security of the ethical organization of people in our general public and its help of the quest for truth by people and society for the most part."
The Commission perceives the job of the media and a free press in our sacred majority rules government and will proceed with its endeavors to safeguard opportunity of the press and to find dynamic ways to forestall the terrorizing of the media.
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