Politics & Corruption of FIFA: Blatter's Africa Quid Pro Quo: Elect me FIFA Czar for Life & Africa gets 2010 WC

Allegedly, AHEM... cough ... cough ..., according to Ms. Gill Moodie, the South African media have fought, and will fight, for freedom of the press. They arn't afraid of taking on FIFA. Ha, Ha.. this is so funny....

The SA media are petrified of taking on themselves, their own hypocrisy and lies about the Lies and Hypocrisy of the alleged 'Rainbow Nation' is; but they are ready and armed to take on FIFA, an organisation that makes the Sicilian mafia look like a housewives tupperwear teaparty.

Given reporters' penchant for proclaiming to "tell both sides," to render all the news that's fit to print, to answer who? what? where? when? and why?, this leads naturally to the question: Why do reporters avoid the population issue so steadfastly? [How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection, by T. Michael Maher, University of Southwestern Louisiana]

FIFA have a significant portion of the South African media by the short and curlies; cause FIFA knows that as corrupt as FIFA may be, much of the SA media don't really have a leg to stand on calling FIFA corrupt: Its the pot calling the Kettle black.

Having experienced the South African media: (SAPA)'s slapgat total disinterest in reporting events based on facts and evidence, and their connivance to play parrot to the NPA and to refuse to print any corrections when informed of their errors. Having personally experienced the SA Press Ombudsman's corruption, to endorse SAPA's reporting of lies; I don't quite agree with Ms. Moodie's moral self righteous tone, in regards to the alleged moral superiority of the South African media. Perhaps there are a few journalists here and there, committed to "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth", but I only know of one half baked citizen journalist blogger, who spent a year in a SA prison cell, for her commitment to 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth'.

So, lets hope the journalists Ms. Moodie is referring to, are individuals -- unlike Mr. Simon Barber and Ms. Noeline Barbeau, or Independent News Board of Directors -- with a little backbone, a little integrity, a little serious commitment to their duties and responsibilities to write news that is truthful, accurate, fair and balanced.

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