Good if the EBU [European Broadcasting Union] follows certain basic
principles of basic journalistic ethics based integrity and honesty for which
the European civilization was well known.
Words impregnated with good
intentions and great ideas can do more wonders than the best weapons.
I used the following two
quote last week when I wrote about education, “People lose their way when they lose their why” says, Michael
Hyatt.
“In the end
nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all”-
William James
So, journalism and media have
great responsibilities and the freedom that they are entrusted with is to
execute those responsibilities and not to manipulate opinions and extrapolate
ideologies on gullible readers and viewers.
Journalists and media persons
must realize that they have responsibility as higher role players in social
engineering to enable humanity to move ahead with more sophistication,
civilization, humaneness and so on.
Everyone
in media must follow as their professional motto the words of Marya Mannea " It is not enough to show
people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous
powers of communication to show people how to be better ".
I said integrity and not
neutrality because being neutral in journalism is like using pro-abortion
condoms.
But then, while ethics
demands reporting real facts as they are and find out the causes and possible
corrective remedies if needed.
It would be preferable to present
various and all types or shades of opinions and views and avoid distortions and
extrapolations according to any particular ideology.
The planet belongs to all
species.
Human beings have to follow
certain basic rules of adjustment, cooperation, tolerance, most importantly
non-violence etc to live as social creatures.
Journalist must focus and
project more on the possibilities and positives than lingering too much on
negativism and lapping up controversies and gossips.
Emphasis must be more on values
and not too much on violations alone and desist from any, I repeat any,
ideology based selective amnesia and collective indifference.
Create an atmosphere to
impart useful, in depth but simple understanding of the importance of peace,
harmony, unity, tolerance, compassion etc not as mere words of sermons but in
their operational modes.
Media
persons must realize that DIVISION after all, if we
unwrap it in acronym as follows;-
Differences
are
Inevitable;
Variety
is
Inherent
and
Synergy
is
Indispensable
to
Operationalize
Nicely
certain commonalities among all and everything in life…
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