Friday, March 21, 2008

A journalistic Hiroshima

What is another's accident, is the other's catastrophe.

No problem with this.

No problems either when people who would not care about (catch-)words, do call an accident 'catastrophe'.
Let alone they have not been taught/told: Very often such 'uneducated' persons are wiser than those who think they got the best education one could get under the sun.

But when journalists who - in my (in this case not) humble opinion - should know better, do call an explosion the Albanian Hiroshima and an Apocalyptic tragedy, they should give up their profession.

Mind: Those who lost beloved, may call what happened whatever comes to their mind. But journalists who would dare to write such rubbish are poor idiots*.

* not in the classical sense. May any idiot sue me. It will be my pleasure.

And be sure, I could give you thousands of examples for (embedded*) idiocy.
But please don't ask me to give them.. I am tired. Really tired.
On the other hand: As long as millions of those who are allowed to vote - come on, here's a chance to severely attack me :))) -, would spoil money to buy such excellent papers / to watch such super mega TV-channels, it's a market, would you agree?

* here I am not refering to those journalists who'd go in bed with the 'devil' for what they - or rather their masters call a good story, but to something general: education.

Ah, another trap I digged for myself. Okay: education is a 'hot field'. Who would set the canon? What if the pupil does not wish to listen to the teacher(s); to the parents (who may have had good or bad teachers)? Who defines what's a bad teacher?
Should teachers teach what has been thought, or should they teach inspire thinking?

Rhetoric question. Yes. Sorry about such a simplicity.

Anybody who thinks s(h)e has a simple / the one and only answer to the problem: Very welcome!

2 comments:

  1. Politicians and media do not inspire thinking they inspire fear and hatred.

    Journalists may write a balanced story but it is the Editor who decides if the story is newsworthy and which story will sell more papers.

    Very few 'current affair' news programs deliver investigative journalism, it is mostly sensationalism aimed at media ratings.

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  2. Hm, I focused on the exaggeration: An explosion causing 50 dead victims and some hundreds inflicted is terrible, but to compare such an accident with what happened to the people of Hiroshima, is either ignorance and/or stupidity, or - and here your thoughts are meeting mine ...
    :)Ah, Ardent, journalism and the media are topics I could talk about hours - preferable in German. :)

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