By now, many people within South Africa’s news-following public are familiar with the recent burst of racism that took place on South Africa’s twittersphere involving a model and a “model”. Mistakes were made, but the backlash and long-term effects from a social and mainstream media clamouring may have devastating consequences on the individuals involved. Things begin to go pearshaped when the media is inaccurate with information that disperses frantically when a news story of this nature breaks.
Wow, this story (which 2oceansvibe broke) is really doing the rounds. For those of you who aren’t aware, The British Daily Mail’s online news site is the World’s number one news website, with over 5 million unique readers a day. To make the front page is quite a big deal – usually for all the […]