Media must look out for quirk AIDs cures
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Mogapi was one of the presenters at the 10 day media workshop on 'Media Fatigue and Stigma in Botswana: Changing Hearts, Minds and Behaviours'. He spoke about why most newsrooms seem to no longer value HIV stories.
Mogapi said that stories that were not straight forward, that were full of jargon and did not have a human face seldom made it to the paper because editors look for more creative work concerning real issues and not just statistics.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...