#PODCAST Media Monitoring Africa report on encouraging trends thus far relating to election fairness in the media #sabcnews

By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Media watchdog organisation, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) says it is encouraging to see the fairness in election related content across the more than 90 media outlets being monitored. It does however, say that the low percentage of female coverage is concerning. MMA Director, William Bird says 95% of the coverage it has seen thus far has been fair, in terms of the amount of time being afforded to political parties. Bird says they are concerned regarding the rising amount of fake news and disinformation being circulated on social media and urges the public to verify before sharing...