http://http://www.timeslive.co.za/business/article166125.ece
Zuma has just shocked the whole nation with his latest statement about “The ANC vowing no protection for comrades implicated for corruption”. It’s amazing how our president is trying to fight something that he alone was once almost convicted for. It makes me wonder how the decision will be capable of making a difference to the current situation our country is facing. These corrupt politicians have made the poor people poorer and have stripped them of their rights. Our nation’s peoples have been blindly at loggerheads over the officials self-pleasing and sly enrichment escapades which have been kept in the shadows and now the immoral self-serving laws are being exposed? For the past fifteen years our country had carried a roman attitude enforced by the corrupt government and the refusal to admit to corruption makes it hard to believe that comrades will no longer protect one another. Meaning there will be no politicians left in parliament... Another point is that politicians tend to forget that, our democracy is based on people’s interests and not the party’s interests. If this principal of morality is not applied without any form of unfair compromises, then all roads lead towards observers who will take amusement in the coming to look upon the ruins of a potentially wonderful country that had been given an opportunity to be a shining example to be the civilized world.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Do we report news to aid those in need or to further patronise them in their times of need?
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Journalists are writers who aim at a mass audience and they advocate a point or express a viewpoint. What happens when journalists exploit their creative power of writing to elevate other people at the expense of others? Many articles and news clips have been produced about African countries being in a state of need and the Western countries being the heroes of the atrocities that occur. The ironic matter is that, Africa is not the only continent in the world that has social issues. However the media always seems to highlight the disasters that happen in African countries rather than in other countries. Journalists do report on cases of disaster in Western countries, such as hurricane Katrina in the U.S.A. The point is not what journalists report; it is how they report it. When hurricane Katrina struck the U.S.A there was immense media coverage, however the Americans were portrayed as survivors not as victims of the disaster. An article was posted on the 15th of October 2009 about LRA (Lord Resistance Army) attacks in the Congo. The headline was: Northern Congo 'needs urgent aid'. The article stated that 400000 thousand people have fled their homes but not one of those people were interviewed and asked about their experience or survival , instead a woman named Katharine Derderian from a Western organization which offered help was interviewed. Our task as upcoming journalists is to report news that doesn’t place power on others while patronizing others; the question is we willing to?
Journalists are writers who aim at a mass audience and they advocate a point or express a viewpoint. What happens when journalists exploit their creative power of writing to elevate other people at the expense of others? Many articles and news clips have been produced about African countries being in a state of need and the Western countries being the heroes of the atrocities that occur. The ironic matter is that, Africa is not the only continent in the world that has social issues. However the media always seems to highlight the disasters that happen in African countries rather than in other countries. Journalists do report on cases of disaster in Western countries, such as hurricane Katrina in the U.S.A. The point is not what journalists report; it is how they report it. When hurricane Katrina struck the U.S.A there was immense media coverage, however the Americans were portrayed as survivors not as victims of the disaster. An article was posted on the 15th of October 2009 about LRA (Lord Resistance Army) attacks in the Congo. The headline was: Northern Congo 'needs urgent aid'. The article stated that 400000 thousand people have fled their homes but not one of those people were interviewed and asked about their experience or survival , instead a woman named Katharine Derderian from a Western organization which offered help was interviewed. Our task as upcoming journalists is to report news that doesn’t place power on others while patronizing others; the question is we willing to?
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Presidents Hotline goes Coldhttp://www.timeslive.co.za/news/article156076.ece
The Presidents new hotline has received nothing but bad press and continues to prove ineffective. The DA’s recent 13 hour attempt to get through to the hotline and had only six of their 51 calls answered. The average South African would have give up after the first attempt and those who do get through still have cross fingers in hope that there complaints do in fact get followed up and receive a reference number. The DA only received two reference numbers out their numerous complaints. However the is no sort of response or attempt of getting the side of the Hotline or the President regarding the 45 unanswered call. There is money and time being pumped into this hotline that has proven not very helpful in its attempt to hear and solve the complaints of its South Africans. With time and money that could be directed in a more productive avenue. Perhaps we need to be a little more patient since there has been said to be progress, “the improvements were slight” even if it’s minimal.
http://http//www.timeslive.co.za/news/article156076.ece
http://http//www.timeslive.co.za/news/article156076.ece
BODY OF MISSING BOY FOUND.
BY: Melissa Gidish
“Body of missing boy found.” 2010-10-19 –News 24.com
This article is about a 9 year old young boy that was found dead in a stream in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg on Monday morning. The boy went missing while playing with a friend near the Klipspruit river crossing in Eldorado Park's Extension 9 at about 18:00 on Sunday. Police spokesperson Nana Radebe says: "We want to send out a strong message that streams are not designated areas for swimming. There is a swimming pool nearby." http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/53cb66e08c5043f89965e4784242ca3a/19-10-2009-10-43/Body_of_missing_boy_found
There is a swimming pool nearby." I found this to be a pointless and insensitive article. The fact that a young boy’s body was found after a drowning incident should not be seen so lightly and should not be blamed on the fact that he was swimming in a river. The fact that Nana Radebe exclaimed that there was a swimming pool nearby is insensitive and besides the point of what actually happened to the boy.
What about the family of the young boy? Nowhere in the article do they mention why the boy was there alone with a friend, they could have perhaps expanded on the fact that the young boy was alone at the stream with another young friend. Perhaps a case of neglect could be looked into.
I find this article to be somewhat pointless and not exactly news worthy however harsh that may sound. There are so many other cases in which children have drowned in a swimming pool at home yet Nana Radebe suggests that if the child was in the swimming pool nearby that he would have been safe and that nothing would have happened to him.
“Body of missing boy found.” 2010-10-19 –News 24.com
This article is about a 9 year old young boy that was found dead in a stream in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg on Monday morning. The boy went missing while playing with a friend near the Klipspruit river crossing in Eldorado Park's Extension 9 at about 18:00 on Sunday. Police spokesperson Nana Radebe says: "We want to send out a strong message that streams are not designated areas for swimming. There is a swimming pool nearby." http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/53cb66e08c5043f89965e4784242ca3a/19-10-2009-10-43/Body_of_missing_boy_found
There is a swimming pool nearby." I found this to be a pointless and insensitive article. The fact that a young boy’s body was found after a drowning incident should not be seen so lightly and should not be blamed on the fact that he was swimming in a river. The fact that Nana Radebe exclaimed that there was a swimming pool nearby is insensitive and besides the point of what actually happened to the boy.
What about the family of the young boy? Nowhere in the article do they mention why the boy was there alone with a friend, they could have perhaps expanded on the fact that the young boy was alone at the stream with another young friend. Perhaps a case of neglect could be looked into.
I find this article to be somewhat pointless and not exactly news worthy however harsh that may sound. There are so many other cases in which children have drowned in a swimming pool at home yet Nana Radebe suggests that if the child was in the swimming pool nearby that he would have been safe and that nothing would have happened to him.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
NASA sent the LCROSS spacecraft to the moon on the 9th of October to hit a crater, in hope to find frozen water. To much of their disappointment they hit a dead end with no water. NASA’s principal investigator, Anthony Colaprete says that they saw an impact when the LCROSS spacecraft hit the moon, but he does not mention the fact that their scientists mistook craters as water droplets on the moon. http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/12/nasa-moon-bomb-hit-dry-hole.htm.
NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, this organisation is an American government agency. The main aim of NASA is to give people more information about the solar system and any given changes in it, http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-nasa.htm. It baffles me why this organisation would go out of their way to go and bomb the moon, spending so much money on the project and fail to obtain their objective, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8245409.stm .
Is this really the time for exploration in space when there is a global recession? What does the American president, Mr. Barack Obama have to say about this? President Obama has given NASA the go ahead to bomb the moon and he has promised the American people that there will be no harm on the forms of life on the moon. I think it is absolutely ridiculous to be spending money on unsuccessful space ventures when people are suffering because of recession; it raises the question why would President Obama win the Noble Peace Prize.
NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, this organisation is an American government agency. The main aim of NASA is to give people more information about the solar system and any given changes in it, http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-nasa.htm. It baffles me why this organisation would go out of their way to go and bomb the moon, spending so much money on the project and fail to obtain their objective, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8245409.stm .
Is this really the time for exploration in space when there is a global recession? What does the American president, Mr. Barack Obama have to say about this? President Obama has given NASA the go ahead to bomb the moon and he has promised the American people that there will be no harm on the forms of life on the moon. I think it is absolutely ridiculous to be spending money on unsuccessful space ventures when people are suffering because of recession; it raises the question why would President Obama win the Noble Peace Prize.
Legend of Osama bin Laden
http://http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/article155321.ece
By Nicole Young
It’s hard to believe that a man who had violent beliefs could have ‘room to love’ his many wives and children. Osama bin Laden who is well known for his talent of paraphrasing Western self-critism and of course the 9/11 attack. His first wife Najwa in the article describes the side of the terrorist that is not known by the world, there are a number of interesting “facts” mentioned but one that seems to strike a readers eye is “his love for nature” yet ever since he has been involved in acts of defending his own country all he has been doing is destroying nature with the bombings. The article also goes on about his ‘mixed attitude’ of using technology and being for earthmoving machinery, seems to be a hypocrite because he went to study in university having to use technology yet for his own children he enforced a simple life. Interesting how a ‘man of fear’ worldwide is portrayed the same at home in a suttle way. His immoral act in the eyes of family appears to be legendary.
By Nicole Young
It’s hard to believe that a man who had violent beliefs could have ‘room to love’ his many wives and children. Osama bin Laden who is well known for his talent of paraphrasing Western self-critism and of course the 9/11 attack. His first wife Najwa in the article describes the side of the terrorist that is not known by the world, there are a number of interesting “facts” mentioned but one that seems to strike a readers eye is “his love for nature” yet ever since he has been involved in acts of defending his own country all he has been doing is destroying nature with the bombings. The article also goes on about his ‘mixed attitude’ of using technology and being for earthmoving machinery, seems to be a hypocrite because he went to study in university having to use technology yet for his own children he enforced a simple life. Interesting how a ‘man of fear’ worldwide is portrayed the same at home in a suttle way. His immoral act in the eyes of family appears to be legendary.
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