Word: pogrund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact Prime Minister John Vorster's Afrikaaner regime never has jailed Lauw. But Pogrund, on his way up through the ranks as a reporter, has received a series of suspended sentences. "The story of my life,' he says...
Bringing a reporter before the bar in South Africa is simple enough, Pogrund explains. Under the Incitement Act, a newsman becomes criminally liable for stirring up racial conflicts just by the slant he takes on a given story, or for the language he uses...
What would happen if The Mail ignored the act? "Oh, that would mean a very serious trial," Pogrund says. "They'd charge us with printing military secrets--very serious...
...Pogrund readily acknowledges the need to compromise principles involved in this type of compliance. "The press in South Africa has a very interesting history," he says. "Sometimes we can be brave as hell, and sometimes just as cowardly." Or, "editing a newspaper in South Africa is like walking blind folded through a mine-field," was the way Pogrund put it in an article that appears in the Autumn-Winter '75 issue of the Neiman Journal. "It is indeed a mine field of legal hazards...
...Pogrund also takes great pride in the stature and reputation for integrity that The Rand Daily Mail enjoys throughout the world. The American National Press or "Emperor" award for 1966 went to The Mail, South Africa's most widely read morning publication, and the paper still carries the award emblem above the masthead each day. The same front page, however, carries a box every day with the name of the Editor, Raymond Lauw; of each editorial writer for that day and of the newsman who wrote all the day's headlines...