Is the only good journalist a dead journalist?
No!! Even dead journalists are evil!
The sheer entitlement of journalists is
breathtaking!! Take Shireen Abu Akleh, for example, who was recently
shot in the head and killed in Israeli-occupied Palestine. Of
course, no one had the right to kill her -- whether an Israeli soldier
was the one who did it, or not. However, note the
following quote from her employer, Al Jazeera:
"Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar said that Abu Akleh was the
voice of Palestinians."
I have a Diploma of Journalism (by correspondence) and I was never
taught that the job of a journalist was to be the so-called "voice"
of a particular country or ethnic group! Journalism
is defined as follows:
"the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and
related commentary and feature materials through such print and electronic
media as newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, webcasts, podcasts,
social networking and social media sites, and e-mail as well as through
radio, motion pictures, and television."
When you turn on the television and select a news programme or an
entire news channel, such as the Al Jazeera channel, you don't that
because you want to hear and see partisan propaganda on behalf of Palestinians
-- or anyone else. No!! What you want is
news and current affairs! If Al Jazeera said that it was
the Voice of Palestinians, the Voice of Arabs, the Voice of Moslems
and/or the Voice of Africa, would many people watch it? Not nearly
so many, I am sure. What we want to watch is "news and
related commentary and feature materials" which is as unbiased
as possible!
"Al Jazeera is an independent news organisation funded in
part by the Qatari government."
I agree that the Palestinians should have a "voice" -- but
not one that cons people by masquerading as an independent news organisation!
Journalists feel entitled to dish out to us propaganda which furthers
the agendas of those political causes that those journalists happen
to like! For example, Al Jazeera and all other "news"
organisations that I usually access routinely dish out Feminist propaganda
and avoid pro-men information like the plague.
Whereas nearly all media outlets function as Voices For Women, if
men want a voice, they have to provide it themnseves -- see A
Voice For Men, for example.
Media anti-male
bias is not a victimless crime. It has very serious consequences,
because all sorts of morons in politics, in the business community and
elsewhere are sucked in by this anti-male propaganda and take concrete
anti-male actions in the real world that oppress men.
|
