Paul Jacobson

Tag: Current Affairs

  • The Sunday Times’ encounter with copyright infringement on YouTube

    A recent filmed interview about the Sunday Times’ coverage of the Health Minister’s alleged antics was hijacked, edited and posted to YouTube. I was approached by the Sunday Times earlier today for comment and part of my interview was included in a video published on The Times’ multimedia site: Brought to you by: The Times…

  • Manto versus The Sunday Times … round 2

    It occurred to me on Friday night that it would have been a good idea to be in court on Friday morning when the Minister’s lawyers and The Sunday Times’ lawyers argued the matter in the High Court before Judge Mahomed Jajbhay on Friday. The reports of the arguments were interesting, although incomplete (there doesn’t…

  • Our Health Minister a “drunk and a thief”

    This last week’s legal proceedings against The Sunday Times were probably worth the hassle and the cost. I have just read the paper’s article which labels our Health Minister a “drunk and a thief” and recounts how she was kicked out of Botswana in the 1970s for repeatedly stealing from patients in the Athlone Hospital…

  • The thing with censorship and freedom of expression …

    This was going to be a comment in response to Twylite’s comment on my post about Patricia De Lille’s call for censorship of bloggers but it started to develop into a full post instead. When the government starts telling us what we can and can’t say, we have censorship. I do agree with one aspect…

  • David Bullard responds …

    … and the message is pretty clear really. We all did exactly what Bullard was aiming for. We, the bloggers, focussed so heavily on Bullard’s clearly inflammatory column so much that we drove a lot of traffic to it. All we did was feed the Bullard marketing machine. This has been a pretty effective case…

  • David Bullard validates blogging

    I knew there would be a backlash when I read David Bullard’s article last night and then published my post. The response from bloggers has been phenomenal. Just about every blogger who has come across Bullard’s article has responded and some has responded rather, um, passionately. Thinking about the whole thing this morning, two things…

  • Virginia Tech shootings

    I just got home and noticed Dennis MacDonald posting something about shootings at Virginia Tech on Twitter. It seems that the gunman opened fire in a dorm and then again in a classroom on campus. He was eventually killed (although it is unclear whether he took his own life or was shot by police) but…

  • Naked, chocolate Jesus … who gets to eat what?

    I just saw this story on Reuters about how a Manhattan art gallery cancelled its plans to exhibit a life-sized chocolate Jesus, sans the loincloth. What I am wondering is who gets to eat which bits and is there greater significance attached to different body parts … ? (Image source: Stuff.co.nz) Technorati Tags:chocolate, jesus, naked,…