{"id":346,"date":"2004-12-23T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T20:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=346"},"modified":"2004-12-23T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T20:21:37","slug":"fynbos-restoration-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Fynbos restoration and the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, not quite a march of the ents, but I spotted this snippet in the Argus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The City of Cape Town has ordered the owners of two properties near Gordon’s Bay to rehabilitate their land after bulldozers ripped up endangered fynbos.<\/em><\/p>\n

A small item, with even less detail than the original article<\/a>. But good news nevertheless. I’d still like to know who the slimes were.<\/p>\n

What’s also interesting is this issue as an example of media sensationalism. I am equally interested in both the destruction and the restoration order. However, the destruction was made into a highly prominent news item, while the restoration order was a 2 line snippet hidden away. I can’t say its made me more disillusioned with the media companies, as that would be difficult, but it’s an affirmation of my negative opinion of them. The recent Mbeki\/Tutu spat<\/a> is another example. The actual wording both used during their ‘spat’ was quite mild, but if you’d only read the headlines it would have looked like World War III between them.<\/p>\n

The real question I have is does this work, or are the media executives being silly? I personally don’t purchase media that indulges in that sort of blatant manipulation going on, and most people I know have similar views. When the Argus had ‘good news week’ or some such thing a while back there were scores of letters of support. Did sales really suffer? I wonder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, not quite a march of the ents, but I spotted this snippet in the Argus: The City of Cape Town has ordered the owners of two properties near Gordon’s Bay to rehabilitate their land after bulldozers ripped up endangered fynbos. A small item, with even less detail than the original article. But good news… Continue reading Fynbos restoration and the media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}