Comments on: Sensationalist reporting is back!

By: 6000

6000 — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:33:01 +0000

@Zackmango: You are my new hero: what a brilliant game! I’m off to review the Cape Times now. (Although I may get stuck at the Ben Trovato column).
Thanks for visiting and commenting. And don’t leave it so long next time!

By: Zackmango

Zackmango — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:35:48 +0000

I realise I’m probably the last one to ever comment on this article, but please bear with me: I only discovered your blog today (thanks, BBC).
When I started working in Cape Town I started a little hobby which I’d like to share (and which will reveal much about my sad, pathetic OCD life): count how many times in a week you can spot the word “crisis” in a Cape Argus headline / poster.

My top score is five – yes, FIVE. Seriously. And this was back when the interest rate was still 11%…

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:04:40 +0000

There is nothing I can say in defence

By: SheBee

SheBee — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:17:31 +0000

OI! I’m a Durbanite!

…which means, obviously, that YES – we are all that dramatic

By: 6000

6000 — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:21:49 +0000

@Pamela: Is there any other sort of day in PE?

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:15:27 +0000

Sorry, I got it wrong 4 articles!

Must have been a really slow day in PE yesterday.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:13:08 +0000

Oh my word – the cable car was stopped for 35 minutes. A whole 35 minutes? I wonder why that did not make the PE paper.

It will probably be front page here tomorrow.

Or maybe not. They might still be writing about the MOCK air disaster which was at the airport for training purposes. That managed to get THREE articles on the front page today. Apparently 62 people “died” and “relatives” were traumatised.

By: 6000

6000 — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:02:09 +0000

@charmskool: I saw that too. The owner’s comment was great: “It was just some crazy Xhosa kids from the Transkei.”
Mind you, he wasn’t the one who got shot! (in the leg)

By: charmskool

charmskool — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:58:05 +0000

One wonders just what is important to the news media? If a 35 minute delay is utterly terrible one wonders how they would have reported the cable snapping and all those assorted tourists who overpaid for the trip in the first place, landing head first on the slopes of Table Mountain – sort of leaves one a bit short of adjectives doesn’t it.
Now what I find very worrying is that Barristers was held up by armed gunmen and the manager shot…I eat and drink there!!! That only made the news the next day!

By: Goblin@Work

Goblin@Work — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:15:26 +0000

You know it’s a slow news day when something like this makes the front page. I would have gone with a happy story about a two headed kitten with healing powers being born…but that’s just me.