So much has been written about the Pretoria News lead reporting that 10 babies had been born to a woman in Tembisa.
As the story correctly pointed out, this would be a world-first. And probably a Guinness Book of Records contender (though only the august publication itself gets to decide such things).
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In 2018, I wrote an impassioned article about “the Sunday Times issue”, which took a long look at how trust is earned and maintained in journalism.
That article looked at the traditional ways in which accuracy is maintained in the journalism production process, and supported the call for an inquiry into how a major South African newspaper got things spectacularly wrong.
That inquiry is now finished, and the South African National Editors’ Forum has issued the report.
This week, I had intended to look at what that report said about journalism in South Africa. But something else has happened: the Jacques Pauw affair.
