Media conferences are sometimes called for the craziest of reasons. Controversial musician and one-time "people’s" poet Mzwakhe Mbuli called a media briefing on Tuesday only to blast those who pitched up for "killing" kwaito musician Mandoza before he died in September. The media often get bashed at such briefings — when money was more plentiful and catering more generous, they often used to get smashed, too — for being out of tune with the conference host. The Insider remembers a memorable nonconference from the mid-1990s, when some or other organisation sent an invitation to the South African Press Association to attend a media conference to announce when the next media conference would be held. What happened at the real briefing, if and when it finally happened, may well have been a lambasting of the media for not reporting on the previous two nonevents. For killing the real news conference before it happened, so to speak. One too many clowns in the US Two of the US’s biggest com...
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