Liberal actors, particularly the proxies of US influence, direct their attention and energy to countering the influence, real and perceived, of geopolitical opponents of Western unipolarity here in South Africa, writes Roscoe Palm.
Much of the media discourse over the last few weeks laid bare the ideological fault lines on which South Africa ’s online media ecosystem precariously situated. Implicit in some of the arguments from liberal media and their commentariat is that certain publications are immutably untrustworthy, while others are of unimpeachable quintessence.
I’ve written extensively on funding and influence networks in the South African media. In the formative years of this research, there were very public interventions made by highly respected authorities in the South African mediascape to discredit this. I wrote subsequent investigative pieces, addressing some very pertinent disclosures in South African media. Key among those many revelations were:
After a presidential commission of inquiry determined that we did not in fact sell arms to Russia, Harber continued to fuel doubt as to the veracity of that report. It is his right to do so, but it just makes him look a bit stupid. Or, if we are generous, he is lazy.
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