Day: April 29, 2015

THE media are powerful, important and dangerous. Two seemingly unrelated events this week reveal how true this is. The first (see footnote), occurred in this column, in which the use of a synonym and the absence of a comma changed the meaning of what was written so completely that a

WE HAVE been so comprehensively lied to we don’t know who or what to believe. When blackouts started in the Western Cape 10 years ago, the official explanation was sabotage. As blackouts spread, we were told that wet coal and, later, low-quality coal was the cause. Since then, the excuses