The past few days have been less than stellar for the Cape Times as they have come under fire from politicians. Now they are set to lose a whole whack of subscribers.
Western Cape Gov. dumps Cape Times. Dior’s first black face. BBC loses 4m viewers. Ryanair approves low-cost flights to US. France to ban skinny models. Marli hasn’t seen Henri. Pinterest’s massive valuation. Romney to fight Holyfield.
The editorial staff over at The Cape Times are becoming increasingly worried that their editorial independence is under threat. It all started when Cape Times editor, Alide Dasnois, was fired unexpectedly by the paper’s new owners, Sekunjalo Independent Media.
Goodbye Baby Jake. Cape Times editor fired. The world’s wealthiest bachelors. North Korea confirms uncle’s purge. Facebook’s answer to people who can’t like sad news. Thai prime minister dissolves parliament Lenin statue toppled in Kiev. Obama acknowledges secret base.
Yesterday the Cape Times reported that the New Seven Wonders of Nature campaign’s organisers stood to make millions of dollars from the global voting. But Heart 104.9fm’s Phat Joe felt that the story was too negative, phoned the journalist who wrote it live on-air, and called her “a cockroach that needs to be sprayed with Doom.”
There has been much speculation over the photograph of Stormers coach / ex-Springbok, Robbie Fleck, which graced the pages of the Cape Times and subsequently went ‘viral’ on the net just over a week ago. 2oceansvibe caught up with Fleck on Thursday to find out what was really going on in that photograph. Follow link […]