#Sugartax: IRR climbs into media over Coke funding

In this opinion piece to Fin24, Frans Cronje, CEO of the South African Institute for Race Relations (IRR), responds to what he calls a media slur campaign against the think tank. This followed a story published by Fin24 revealing that the Coca-Cola Company funded a research policy paper produced by the IRR on taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).

Weighing in, Prof George Claassen, the ombudsman of Media24’s Community Press Division, in this opinion piece, looks at how credible and reliable science should work and how trustworthy and credible media should function.

Dissection of a media slur campaign - by Frans Cronje