Former International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has expressed concern at the medias bias in covering geopolitical crises.
Pandor says the media has changed and has shown uneven applications of global rules. She was speaking at the 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand earlier today.
She says the most worrying thing is that countries that are the founders of free expression are today the most active abusers of the craft.
"The profession industry has been stained by embedded journalism, by runaway technology advances, by practice of reporting that does not require training or certification. And to some degree by the failure of the profession to form global bonds of solidarity to end harm as it was done through the liberation movements when we were fighting for freedom," says Pandor.
Pandor says it is worrying how the world is quiet about media personnel who are being killed in Gaza. More than 140 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
