Don t think the media in this country is overcritical.
Criticism is good for democracy.
Dr Eronini Megwa, head of the department of journalism at the Peninsula Technicon, had for 50-odd journalists and editors of the community press at a meeting at The Lord Charles in Somerset West on Friday. The Hermanus Times was one of the newspapers invited to the seminar, organised by the Forum of Community Newspapers. Megwa, who was born in Nigeria and studied in the USA, said newspapers are very powerful , and research has shown that people depend on them for information. The media has the power to cripple the government and to destroy an individual - that s why the media strikes fear in the minds of politicians. Megwa believes that the community press has just as important a role to play, and often more important , than the national media.