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When the nation loses its shared kraal: On legacy media and the thinning of SA’s shared civic life
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An opinion piece examining how the decline of traditional media institutions in South Africa has fragmented shared civic discourse, with algorithm-driven social media replacing the unifying role of newspaper front pages.
When the nation loses its shared kraal: On legacy media and the thinning of SA’s shared civic life
Amid the struggles facing legacy media institutions, South Africans increasingly no longer wake up in the same country. We used to share a front page; now we share an algorithm – and the algorithm sorts us before we have had our coffee.
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