SA Media Reports Invisible Tsunami

The South African media is supremely useless. This includes TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, agencies, news services, freelancers, and the so-called internet news sites.

The world media is just as bad, possibly worse.

Take for instance the much-reported "human tsunami" supposedly crashing over the South African border from Zimbabwe at the rate of thousands a day.

You would think there would be a photo of lines of people going over the border, or crowds at Beit Bridge (where, we are told, thousands are crossing "legally" every day.) Or at least a photo of crowds at the refugee centre at Marabstad in Pretoria.

Instead: nothing, except a couple of staged shots of a black jumping razor wire fence.

To help all those incompetent affirmative News Editors out there: Beit Bridge is 500 km from Johannesburg. Wouldn't it be worth it to get a reporter with a cameraman to check on Beit Bridge, just to make sure there really is a tsunami?

Especially because there are no such photos to be found out there on Youtube. A Google research returns many hand-beaten Zimbabwean sites, all without photos....