Africa: AMI Principles Will Nourish Africa's Information Consumers

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A fish, they say, starts to rot from the head. It's the same in the world of newshounds. When there are bad smells at the top echelons of a media house, you can expect the contamination to spread to the whole entity.

Just as nobody wants to get poisoned by festering fish, no one wants to be a victim of corrupted journalism. In the United Kingdom, however, thousands of people today have been victims of phone-hacking. The wider British society is also an indirect victim of the related tabloid journalism.

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