Friday, September 13, 2013

"Self-shackled Journalism Trade"

When the front-line commandant turns the rifle on his own head, and the King's chief executioner tightens the noose around his own neck, then it "slipperily" slides home that ants have attacked the hunters' hub!

Before traditional media space was brightly shone upon by the liberalism ray of light, practitioners that dug into the trade broke sweat on the sole ground of being 'eyes and ears' of the public. They executed their cardinal 4th estate duty for the general good of the public, that not only portrayed them as professional rumor-mongers but also as astute information engineers at tickling the public to act and get moving to a positive direction.

But when liberalism crept into the watch-man's tower cubicle, he came along with his commercialism twin-brother and both crippled the mighty man's strong feet that stood guard of the Boss' values and norms.

Today news reporters(labelled so quite absurdly) will ride on a 'half false' or 'half baked' story simply because of an 'illusionist' mind-note that 'he who alleges that the story is false must prove'. This also is opportunely exploited because it tickles the audience's attention and breeds healthy ground to be exploited by the commercialism twin brother.

Journalists(correctly put) are now refrained from crediting a rival news source for breaking a 'good story' for a 'sorry' reason that i call fear of tilting the audience advantage scale. However, they are quick at drawing daggers when a rival news source is pinned for outing a 'false story' and will announce or print their name in 'Bold' and 'Caps on.'

Disturbingly, this commercial-pined rivalry has trickled down to our humane fiber and am not surprised when disaster or tragedy strikes one of our own, we get 'jelly kneed' to name the media house one worked for, if at all we even cue it in, in our official news tube!!
#Omukiga-Wekiniga!