Opinion
#FreeBritney — the movement for our times
There was a time in the previous decade in newsrooms around SA when the daily news conference would start with one burning question: what are Juju and Britney doing today? Juju was engaged in flagrant demagogy (and nothing has changed on that front); Britney was falling apart. Every day. The news cycle is a vicious thing. It feeds on the car crashes of society. Like those slug-like creatures on the beach that emerge rapidly from the sand with their carapace of protective shell to suck the life from a dying jelly fish, the media slows down to ponder the morality tales unfolding before us and society tut-tuts in unison...
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