'The mainstream media, should be constantly alert to these ‘human’ frailties and vigilant in the execution of their duty to the readers' A student called into the John Robbie show on Monday morning to complain that “mainstream news media” was biased against the fees must fall student movement and was not reporting fairly on the provocations the students were experiencing at the hands of the police, private security companies and the administrations of the universities. On Twitter, on the other hand, it is being argued that the mainstream news media are supporting the protesting students but ingnoring the “trending topic”, #Sciencemustfall.This is the cause taken up by students as shown on You Tube, who want to “decolonise”science by, for example, incorporating into it the physics of directing lightning bolts onto your enemies, as sangomas are wont to do. Donal Trump is parlaying the US population’s low trust in the “mainstream media” into a battle cry: “Let’s be clear on one thi...
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