What Is The Primary Role Of Journalists, Male Or Female? “Society’s Watchdogs,” Says Amrie Cruzon. Sorry, Those Ladies Are Looking For Bad News Rather Than Good News!
(“Good News” image from Dreamstime, dreamstime.com)
Being a prominent single-minded and strident bad-news guardian
of PH society as a whole is what won for Maria
Ressa the Nobel Peace Prize 2021. With its Peace Prize, the Nobel
Foundation is in fact rewarding those people who go out looking for the bad news
rather than the good news!
Saturday, 02 July 2022, I challenged Ms Maria to publish a good news magazine –
“Culture Agriculture” (02 July 2022,
“Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize 2021 Winner – Why Not Your Journeys In
Journalism Pleasing To You And Others? My Challenge In Peace: Journalism As
Foods For Thought & Stomach!” Towards A New Eden, towardsaneweden.blogspot.com).
No reply – Ms Maria not interested in good news?
Today,
journalism is too much bad news and too little good news.
The American Press
Institute (americanpressinstitute.org)
says:
“The purpose of
journalism,” write Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel in The Elements Of Journalism, “is [neither] defined by
technology, nor by journalists [nor] the techniques they employ.” Rather, “the
principles and purpose of journalism are defined by something more basic: the function
news plays in the lives of people.”
“The function news plays in the lives of people” – it turns
out Ms Amrie had knowledge of this function, saying:
This journalistic
ethos extends to culture and lifestyle publications as well as independent
content creators. What type of culture and lifestyle are we projecting as
aspirational? How are we making sense of the world we live in? What type of
world are we helping shape it to be?
Congrats,
Ms Amrie! Lady journalists, you should all be investigating for and writing about
the good of society: good home, good soil, good food, and good climate. Like,
the farmers need you!
Well, I don’t blame you because even the members of the Philippine Agricultural Journalists Inc (PAJ)
have reported little for the good of agriculture except about harvests in
farms, costs of production, prices of foods and fertilizers, and even harvests
being thrown away because of low prices.
For almost 3 years, August 2019-June 2022, Secretary of Agriculture William Dar was spreading the gospel
that he called “The New Thinking For
Agriculture (TNT for A), with its “8 Paradigms” (guide concepts). And yet journalists,
PAJ members included, hardly wrote about TNT for A, as if it did not exist! If
they did not understand those paradigms, why did they not ask Mr Dar?
I kept writing about TNT for A, but I was a wolf of one in
the wilderness, you might say, crying. (Check out my blog, Towards A New Eden, towardsaneweden.blogspot.com.)
And the ladies (and gentlemen) of the press? Silent as lambs!@517
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