Times Media CEO responds to bizarre personal attack from Independent journalist
'While a healthy open discussion about the media is essential to any democracy, this sort of slanderous attack is to be regretted'
Times Media CEO Andrew Bonamour was sent a list of questions by journalist Joseph Booysen of Business Report, which is published by Independent Media. The questions arrived the day after Independent’s Iqbal Surve served legal notice over an article critical of his company by journalist Ann Crotty. Read the full article here. Here are the questions: Dear Mr Bonamour I am preparing an article for Business Report and will greatly appreciate your comment on the issue regarding TMG. Can you please confirm, getting a salary of R28 million? Is it true that TNG retrenched 450 people, mostly black? Did you keep the white middle management? Is Business Day running at a loss? Did you sell Nu Metro to your friends without lease agreements? Did you sell Exclusive Books to Mark Barnes, CEO of SAPO and did you declare this to your shareholders, Are you friends with Mr Barnes and did you work with him at Brait? Is it true that Dr Johan Rupert was given a Lift Time Achiever Award? Are you a racist?...
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