Monday, November 22, 2010

To Hell with Journalism Ethics:

Geo is an amazing channel. It shows everything. I mean people need to see everything! They need to know everything. What do we care about sensitivity or respect? This is all journalism ethics. To hell with journalism ethics! Take the plane crash. It was an exhilarating ride for our Television channels with smooth landings of their ratings. We have a national catastrophe let’s make a cartoon out of it. So we put up around forty to fifty animators and they come up with this cute little plane that goes to cute little brown mountains and boom! There’s a crash! I’m sure it was an appreciated gesture by all those anxiously staring at the News tickers to see whether  their loved ones made it alive or not. Then we have our reporters who come to houses of the victims and ask their immediate family, no less to tell them how they feel. And to make our news even more crisp, lets attack them with questions on the soyem chaliswa or chaliswa. Journalism laws teach us to be polite distant and not intrude on family time. But to hell with Journalism ethics!
When we can’t make cartoons let us post full length videos with no warnings. If it’s for ten minutes it’s even better. Of course it should be graphic. With all the details, because the people need to know everything! Journalism ethics teaches us censor, but to hell with journalism ethics! And then let us eliminate objectivity. We should compromise on our job of just delivering the news and instead take sides. Granted the two boys were killed inhumanely. Granted what was done to them was wrong, but does it mean we make martyrs out of them? Did we ever get to hear the other side of the story? Fine our security institutions have failed but does it mean we criticize them and then hop on to the same band wagon as them? Journalism is about being objective. Letting us form our own opinions. We need to eliminate emotions, but no to hell with journalism ethics!
We were criticized on CNN but what do we care? Anyway weren’t these goras supposed to be a Zionist conspiracy to lead us away from the voice of God?  They made the journalism ethics. We need not follow. Compassion isn’t a part of our news anymore, because to hell with journalism ethics!

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