Media obsession with ANC and COPE

A newspaper report that police had to intervene as chanting members of the African National Congress and the Congress of the People (Cope) confronted each other at Eastern Beach shows clearly that journalists are obsessed with the two parties. Sadly, it is not about their policy positions.

Youth voters out there think that they have to struggle between the choice of a land so dry that it cannot be cultivated without irrigation and a land so wet that it cannot be cultivated without drainage. Yet if media focus was on the policy of the two parties perhaps it could be easier for young people to vote the party of their choice on an informed basis.

Obviously those without policies to present to the voters will prefer the current angle that journalists are so obsessed with and refuses flatly to refresh.