ANTON HARBER: Jacob Zuma targets professionals doing their jobs
By going on the attack against a prosecutor and a journalist, Zuma is sends a signal to others
Court reporters get information and documents from both sides of any case they are covering, routinely. They talk to prosecutors and defence lawyers, and in civil cases plaintiffs’ and defendant teams, hear their points of view and get explanations and clarifications. It is a standard part of the process of ensuring coverage of open courts, particularly when the case is high profile and complicated.
If a reporter gets something from one party in a case, it does not make them partisan. It just means they are doing their job of information gathering. How and when they use the information is another matter — and it is on this that they are judged as good or bad reporters...
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