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Questions to Mr Deckmyn

-How many times does a journalist 'Foreign News' goes abroad to check the situation on the countries he is writing on? You should ask one of your collegues...

-On which sources do journalists base their info? -Yep, indeed, on the telex that runs in the news.-

-On which info do you check your articles? Ever doubted them?

-Who decides the importance of news? And how comes it is almost everywhere the same? (Did you ever read Jaap van Ginniken, “De schepping van de wereld in het nieuws”, 1996, Houten/Diegem
(creation of the world in the news))

-Did you ever check the meaning of the word 'journalist'?
Main Entry: jour·nal·ist
Pronunciation: -n&l-ist
Function: noun
1 a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium b : a writer who aims at a mass audience
2 : a person who keeps a journal

Instead of attacking the blogger -in which I truly see a difference with a journalist- people should cooperate and work together.
See the added value.
I think some bloggers can make veryvery good journalists.
And vice-versa.

Give a more personal vision of the news sometimes wouldn't do bad. Give the impersonal a face.
Because behind all those facts there is a world which isn't shown in the news.
Reach beyond the drama...

I have lived 2 years in Israel and moved back and forward to the Occupied Territories.
I can assure you that the news never gave a right vision on it. It only highlights the drama.
A pity.

Posted on August 4, 2004
in Limit of my knowledge

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