http://www.news24.com/Tags/Topics/media Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Mon, 20 May 2013 07:06:08 +0200 The government communications department has condemned what it describes as "unethical conduct" by Sunday Times editor Phylicia Oppelt. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Oppelt-unethical-govt-20130519 The Press Ombudsman has dismissed a complaint by businessman Vivian Reddy and Edison Power Gauteng about a Mail & Guardian article on a contract they were awarded. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Reddy-complaint-against-MG-dismissed-20130517 Mail & Guardian editor-in-chief Nic Dawes has resigned after more than four years in the position, the newspaper has announced. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Mail-Guardian-editor-resigns-20130517 President Barack Obama is trying to halt a perception spreading among both White House opponents and allies that he has been passive and disengaged amid a trio of controversies. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Obama-tries-to-regain-control-20130516 US Attorney General Eric Holder has defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records, saying it was justified as part of a probe into a national security leak. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Holder-defends-AP-phone-subpoena-20130515 A reduction in civil liberties doesn’t end well for anyone, except government, writes Simon Williamson on the decision by the US government to subpoena AP records. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Eradication-of-civil-liberties-in-the-US-20130515 US Attorney General Eric Holder says he played no direct role in the justice department's secret review of Associated Press phone records. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Holder-had-no-direct-role-in-AP-subpoena-20130514 The US Justice Department secretly obtained telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news co-operative has called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion". http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-government-secretly-gathered-AP-records-20130514 The end may be near for a California evangelical radio network used by a preacher to predict - incorrectly - the apocalypse. http://www.news24.com/World/News/End-of-days-for-US-apocalypse-radio-20130513 Argument on sections of the law on the confidentiality of asylum applications, will be heard in the Constitutional Court. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Media-heads-to-ConCourt-over-Refugee-Act-20130513 Allegations in The Sunday Times of extravagant spending by Communications Minister Dina Pule will not stick, the department says. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Department-Newspaper-out-to-get-Pule-20130513 Communications Minister Dina Pule will not apologise to the Sunday Times, her department says. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Pule-hasnt-wont-say-sorry-20130510 The SABC's Radio Sonder Grense (RSG) must acknowledge on air that a news item it broadcast contained insufficient detail, the BCCSA has ruled. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Radio-report-on-rape-unfair-BCCSA-20130509