Comments on: Al Jazeera does South Africa http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/18/al-jazeera-does-south-africa/ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Holli http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/18/al-jazeera-does-south-africa/#comment-1036 Holli Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:03:17 +0000 http://theleoafricanus.com/?p=1235#comment-1036 Al Jazeera is an outpost of CNN. Or BBC. Interesting post and I like the blog name. Majority of north Americans believe Afric is indeed a country... Where are you based? I'm a Canadian in Accra for the past 11 years. This continent is quite a place - most often misunderstood and mishandled by the governments and the rest of world... but it's a place I'd rather be with a live pulse and never a boring day... Keep up the writing - and educating the rest of the world about good old Africa! Al Jazeera is an outpost of CNN. Or BBC.
Interesting post and I like the blog name. Majority of north Americans believe Afric is indeed a country…

Where are you based? I’m a Canadian in Accra for the past 11 years.

This continent is quite a place – most often misunderstood and mishandled by the governments and the rest of world… but it’s a place I’d rather be with a live pulse and never a boring day…

Keep up the writing – and educating the rest of the world about good old Africa!

]]> By: Sean http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/18/al-jazeera-does-south-africa/#comment-652 Sean Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:42:30 +0000 http://theleoafricanus.com/?p=1235#comment-652 "They’re still the exotic, racist Other." You mean to other white people (I mean foreign correspondents, writers, essayists, documentary filmmakers, etc) in the West? I wonder if that partly fuels the neo-right Afrikaner politics in SA? “They’re still the exotic, racist Other.” You mean to other white people (I mean foreign correspondents, writers, essayists, documentary filmmakers, etc) in the West? I wonder if that partly fuels the neo-right Afrikaner politics in SA?

]]> By: Herman http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/18/al-jazeera-does-south-africa/#comment-651 Herman Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:32:32 +0000 http://theleoafricanus.com/?p=1235#comment-651 Stereotyping Afrikaners is such old hat. They're still the exotic, racist Other. It's lazy reporting and affords Afrikaners a much more central place in contemporary South Africa than would be the case in a careful analysis of the class and racial politics of which they're a part. Stereotyping Afrikaners is such old hat. They’re still the exotic, racist Other. It’s lazy reporting and affords Afrikaners a much more central place in contemporary South Africa than would be the case in a careful analysis of the class and racial politics of which they’re a part.

]]> By: Lara Pawson http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/18/al-jazeera-does-south-africa/#comment-650 Lara Pawson Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:34:54 +0000 http://theleoafricanus.com/?p=1235#comment-650 Something interesting: Al Jazeera Africa (in English) is packed with people from the BBC, some of whom had been frankly appalling reporters on this continent. If Al Jazeera starts to slowly slide into cliched takes on the continent, it won't come as a surprise. I fear, in the end, the Al Jazeera will slowly become like the other big channels, despite its good intentions and the hope it gave us (all) at the start. Something interesting: Al Jazeera Africa (in English) is packed with people from the BBC, some of whom had been frankly appalling reporters on this continent. If Al Jazeera starts to slowly slide into cliched takes on the continent, it won’t come as a surprise. I fear, in the end, the Al Jazeera will slowly become like the other big channels, despite its good intentions and the hope it gave us (all) at the start.

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