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Publication details [#51932]

Hubbard, Hilton. 2008. 'Treating officials with kid gloves?' An appraisal of government in two South African television news programmes. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 39 (2) : 242–261.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Findings of this study reveal a pro-government bias in South African television news programmes by SABC3 (South African Broadcasting Corporation3) relative to e-tv, a commercial channel, more in terms of partiality than balance.