“Wife Stabs Husband With Squirrel”, “Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead”, “Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says” This is why people go to journalism school.
South Africa’s latest crime stats were made public yesterday, and it seems that not everyone is looking at them through the same lens.
We won’t have many more important days in the short history of democratic South Africa than those we are in the midst of. The papers reflect that.
Yes, we see the irony in an online publication running a story about the decline of newspapers. But still. It has been revealed that weekend newspaper circulation has dropped by 7,5% in the past year. That is significant.
But it’s not that bad. South African daily newspaper circulation has been declining by roughly five per cent year on year since 2008, and the second quarter of 2012 has proven this is still happening, but not as badly as some may have thought. There have been a few publications that have bucked the trend.