On Friday, emblazoned across the Cape Times billboard, was a headline - "Western Cape Racism" - so blatant in its intention. For the newspaper to tarnish the entire province as racist for a heinous act perpetrated by school kids against a fellow pupil, exposes their political agenda for what it is. To blame the entire province for an attack that might indeed be racially inspired, is to unmask the tactics the Independent Group mafia will increasingly use to turn the nation against the DA-run government in the Western Cape.
The more partisan this media stable becomes, the more the people of this province will undermine its political agendas. With Marius Fransman thoroughly discredited and the provincial ANC in ruins, Independent should be careful not to try and do the ANC's dirty work for them. Sooner or later it will backfire, as it has in every subsequent election since Nomaindia Mfeketo was Executive Mayor. To boot, the Brown Envelope scandal is still fresh in our minds.
News media across the world push partisan political agendas but sooner or later they get found out as happened in the USA recently. America's news anchor Brian Williams has been suspended for six months from NBC News because he lied about his experience as a war correspondent in Iraq in 2003. In William's own words:
"The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG..." "Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."
"We came under fire by what appeared to be Iraqi farmers with RPG's and AK-47's. The Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor, as all four of our low-flying Chinooks took fire."
His embellishments were so over the top that he was sure to be found out. But aware of his "left-wing media darling status", he fed his own lies until Fox news exposed him showing how each version of his story grew more and more preposterous that someone had to blow the whistle. And that someone was one of the crewmen of the Chinook helicopter.