Wednesday, March 17, 2010

An attack on the media is an attack on the marketing industry

The most recently publicised  proclamation (17 March 2010) by the African National Congress' Youth League of South Africa is very disturbing. Not only does it bring back chilly memories of the worst days of attempted media control by the former apartheid government of the 1980's, it also echoes clearly from denunciations of the media that formed part of the dictatorial regime of Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe.

The marketing & advertising side of the Media industry should be concerned about these things. Without a free and lively press, we will be unable to ply our trade freely in a consumer-oriented society.

Whatever a individual's politics, reasonable persons need to take a stand against this open anti-media facism.

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