I am going to try to persuade you today that using “health” (and taking a very wide definition of that word) provides an entry to telling both the very big stories of our time as well as the “small”, personal ones that humanise our media.
Over the past few years, with the shrinking of resources in the media, some of the press in particular (but SABC TV and radio too) have started to resemble “fast-news” franchises, similar to fast food places where, no matter whether you’re in Pholokwane or Cape Town, the place looks the same and the food is identical sweetened cardboard. I can read The Star in the morning, catch a plan to Cape Town or Durban and read the Argus or the Daily News and have a sense of déjà vu. Same old, same old.
Read more here:NJ-The_Body of_Evidence.pdf
