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I know many Danish journalists. However, there are only four or five journalists I can call journalists. This is actually, because as a journalist with an experience that extends more than thirty years in different countries, I know journalism has two main principles or values. Those values are transparency and credibility.
The holly mission of journalism is not to only report official and other regional news. Journalism should get down under the ground to touch the real life of people who suffer and to light candles for them and help them cure their human pains.
The misery of people there in Sudan, or any other country in Africa or Asia lays heavy weight on the International media. However, it appears that people are living in misery even in what they call the first world. It is here deep in Europe or even in America; people suffer and live under the poverty margins. Discrimination, work abuse and other kinds of servitude are real practices here in Europe too.
The media unfortunately does not see that. I have seen some journalists who think journalism is just like any other job. They do their jobs day after day routinely just like any other job, while journalism is a media for creation and invention to what make the people sad or happy. It happens just like this; unless you go after the media, the media will not go after you. You are totally forgotten in this media unless a good journalist there comes in to break the iceberg of dogmatism.
I recall in my professional daily life there in Africa, I used to go on foot long ways to different places, sub-districts and districts to discover new things. I actually met many people during these tours and chatted with them to discover their pains. Those places were the origins of my articles and interviews.
I went at the same time and visited many official directions just to chat here and there and discover new things. This is what the NEWS is all about …meaning to bring the news from the people not only from the officials. I went also to many regional and international channels to chat about something or to have pamphlets and other reports and publications. I stepped even further to be present in diplomatic receptions; and have seen both the other side of the midnight and the other side of the mountain in diplomatic relations.
This is what makes journalism stand out of the daily routine and come with new bloods to the modern media. The happy life some people live should not prevent the media from seeing the other side of the mountain.
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