News | Journalists at 24-hour television news broadcaster eNCA are finally sharing their experiences with fired news executive Kanthan Pillay. “It’s always his way or the highway,' said one journalist, by JKwritingz
and a disturbing image depicting a deep-seated culture of bullying and lack of understanding from the former head of news is beginning to take shape.
Pillay’s hardliner approach to management became evident during staff discussions on how to cover the Botswana elections which were set for later that month.Journalists suggested in the broadcaster’s internal WhatsApp group that they accept an invitation to cover the elections from the neighbouring country’s government.
In separate WhatsApp conversations shared with City Press, Pillay refers to police officials who invited the media to a scheduled take down of “a massive arms cache and dagga lab” in Pretoria as “numbnuts” and urged his journalists to interrogate why they were targeting dagga labs instead of illegal traders.
Maggs said the decision was taken with the knowledge that all news organisations only thrived on one currency which was their credibility which had been hurled into doubt as a result of Pillay’s alleged actions.
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