Word: niekerk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Censorship was an excuse for no longer covering the story," said Philip Van Niekerk, a Cape Town writer and a panelist at yesterday's forum on "Press Coverage of South Africa." He said that instead, one factor contributing to the decline in coverage was loss of interest in the country...
...Niekerk said before the Botha government imposed a ban on press coverage, American press coverage of the violence there dealt a psychological blow to South Africans who support apartheid...
...Niekerk said that sort of coverage was not without its problems. "The problem with media in this country is that they cover stories like a soap opera...
...spite of the drop in coverage, Van Niekerk said he thought Americans still oppose the South African government. "The domestic opinion is pretty hostile towards [them]," he said...
...Niekerk, a freelance journalist who served as the South African correspondent for The Boston Globe, will study how the U.S. government has changed its foreign policy in response to press censorship by the South African government...