On a news page, words which add no news or semantic value to a headline are usually condemned as “padding”. Third World journalism has long nurtured the use of words which add absolutely no semantic value to a headline. Yet Third World journalism has long nurtured the use of words which add absolutely no semantic value to a headline. Of course, a newspaper can often make an internal attempt to rewrite the wire stories to remove the Western self-interests and prejudices written in them. As a matter of policy, we tried to editorially remove the Western self-interests written all over them concerning such Western controlled southern African countries as Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia.

Source: Daily Nation March 29, 2019 18:56 UTC