The launch of a brand new newspaper should be a cause for celebration. I suppose that's if it manages to launch, unlike the New Age which was meant to be on stands today and isn't. In fact, it won't be for another two weeks or so, according to managing editor, Gary Naidoo. Is it simply a case of running out of time? No. It's because five senior staff members resigned yesterday.
On John Robbie's show this morning on 702, Naidoo gave us all the runaround about why these top people have left the team, claiming to have no idea why they resigned. Perhaps the New Age needs to invest in some investigative journalists.
Then there's also the shadowy 'Gupta family', close friends of President Zuma, who are funding the paper. Did the staff resign because they refused to slant their voices a certain way? Or was it just money, plain and simple? And all this as the media tries to lose the would-be muzzle of the Protection of Information Bill.
Read all about it in today's papers. Just not the New Age.
Gonna end up like that Your World newspaper, or whatever it was called. Sad really.
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