The New Age, a government-funded propaganda spout, has decided to withdraw from the Press Ombudsman process according to an opposition party.<\/p>\n
The opposition complained about a front page article on February 2 2015, headlined “DA sees conspiracies where there are none”, in which Communications Minister Faith Muthambi defended the government’s advertising in the newspaper.<\/p>\n
The party said that The New Age was getting a “disproportionate” amount of government advertising expenditure and complained to the Press Ombudsman.<\/p>\n
The CEO of The New Age, Nazeem Howa, wrote to the Ombudsman on 25 February to ‘confirm the withdrawal of The New Age from the Press Ombudsman processes’.<\/p>\n
It appears that, to avoid the embarrassment of apologising and retracting the story, The New Age decided to withdraw from the Ombudsman process.<\/p>\n
The party claimed that The New Age was considering the appointment of its own ombudsman to deal with complaints against the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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