The Press Council: Self-Censorship through Intimidation

William A. Hachten, C. Anthony Giffard and Harva Hachten

Chapter 3 in The Press and Apartheid, 1984, pp 50-75 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Few things illustrate more graphically the pressures on the South African press than the continuing saga of the Press Council. The council was established in 1962 in an attempt to forestall direct government control of the press. Threatened with legislation to establish a statutory press council, the Newspaper Press Union (NPU), an organization representing most of the country’s newspaper publishers, decided that self-discipline was preferable to government censorship. The first body they set up was the essentially harmless Press Board of Reference. It could impose no sanctions; the code of conduct it administered comprised little more than a series of platitudinous statements no self-respecting journalist could object to.

Keywords: Prime Minister; South African Government; Press Freedom; South African Society; Cato Manor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07685-7_3

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