Online news in South Africa
January 2nd, 2009 | by kilps |I don’t know if it is just me, but I really do think that local news sources just don’t get it right. While parading new media sources such as video, their websites are still badly structured, suffer from a lack of constant new content and, most annoying of all, all have the same content from the news agencies. Anyone else feel the same?
My browsing of the news each day consists of a visit to the Mail & Guardian, The Times and the BBC. Later in the day I generally visit the New York Times, Time.com and the Wall Street Journal. I also occasionally drop by IOL and News24.
Perhaps I’m complaining too much – but I do feel that the international sites have better content and also importantly don’t rehash the same background information each time they do a follow up story. Guess I just have to live with it.
