role of mass media and technology in education august 2013 | Page 5

battle for survival within the mass media industry, the watchdog does tend to become somewhat rapid at times.

In South Africa, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) inevitably faces tremendous criticism from the mass media when its members protest the enormous challenges and deprivations they face in the classrooms. Many of those challenges have very little to do with the actual teaching.

Regrettably, the relationship between the mass media and education involves a lot of indulgence in blame-games and reaction by both sides to superficial symptoms.

There is undeniably an urgent need for the education authorities and the mass media to join together in improving