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World Press Freedom Day 2010

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:12:29 +0000

Situation is changing on better considering media freedom, but there is a need to make a huge step and let people understand what is news manipulation and make politicians understand that they can’t manipulate with crowd by serving them news which are convenient only to them (no matter is it democratic or nondemocratic country).
With faster internet growth and social consciousness, big number of blogs, microblogs and other citizen journalism sites, people will probably learn in time to see the difference between ordered and real news, which means that crucial thing for free media and press is social consciousness.
And when we once overcome that level : I’m informing you to easier rule with you, then we can talk about real day when press freedom came, or : I’m informing you just to inform you.
Until then one part of the world will be constantly misinformed, which of course doesn’t have to refer on all citizens of those countries, because one bigger part already knows how to differ true and real news and to recognize news significant for his life and surroundings.
So, citizen journalism should play important role here because more citizen journalists means more independent and totally free media which report only about things people really want to know and true information.
Also there will always be people who will try to use citizen journalism for bad purpose, but those are things easy to identify and most likely easy to refuse and eliminate out of market.
Journalists by themselves should be more careful and never write ordered texts or stop if they used to write them. Mostly because giving people real information should be in their personal and professional interest, too.
Ordered texts and news which purpose is to promote some political party, multinational corporation or some separate product are nothing but simple advertisement, and that’s not what journalists should write about. There are advertisement agencies which profession is to write by order.
Reporter must be independent, free and his part is to present news the way it happened, whether his title is journalist or citizen journalist.
Both will have lots of work in next period so that people could get better and correct information.

New media spreading wings in Nairobi, Kenya

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:25 +0000

Since we still live in the world of democracy on hold, where there are still countries without free press and media, where articles about anything that involves politics get censorship, where journalists disappear from the face of the earth as a ghosts and where talking or just thinking against politics and government are considered as a sentence to death, every news about change is more than welcome.
In new and modern Kenya, with more open journalism we can see some new glance of democracy.
Looks like in past few years media and journalists get more freedom and options to write and do their jobs.
President Mwai Kibaki had all good words about journalism and improvement in reporting. Better conditions and new technology gave serious results. While he was at the Pan Africa Media Conference at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) on Thursday, he praised citizen journalists as well as journalists and complete media in Africa saying that Africa has changed and still changing media and information system.
As it was said in the article :

He urged players in the media industry to be guided by public good while executing their unique roles of informing, educating and entertaining the society because they hold the communication channels as custodians of the public good.

As a conclusion all we can say is to invite journalists and citizens to continue their work and let the world know what is happening in their countries.

World Press Freedom Day

admin — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:12:28 +0000

Big day for all of us who love journalism.
Freedom is something necessary, something everyone must have. Something no one would like to lose.
For freedom to speak and write many people had to fight and demonstrate. And because I think everyone has the right to know what is happening in his country or neighborhood journalists must have free space and absolute freedom for work.
True journalists are heroes, they fought for out freedom to sit in our homes and debate and write our thoughts and ideas. That is positive.
That is why freedom for journalists and reporters is crucial.

Freedom of speech and democracy

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:35:13 +0000

This is it. And this must stay always untouched.

Where will we be if someone starts to ban free speech?

Power of the words, it is proven. Nowadays we can see its force all around us. Generations who lived so many years ago fought battles to achieve something that many today take for granted. Like every freedom this too had its price. Words, letters and expressing is what we need to stay sacred. Democracy is our pride, the thing we always mention when we want to emphasize our progress and achievements.

Everyone has the right to think and say what’s on his/her mind, and as long as it does not hurt or insult anyone, it is OK. And if it is some accusation, then there are institutions to deal with it, but again it is not a solution to forbid.