May 18, 2012
BERSIH3.0 Reporting: Don't Get Trapped in Orwell's 1984 Mentality
by Azam Aris
Seeking a some-more design as good as offset perspective of a BERSIH3.0 rally, you shunned a headlines reports in a mainstream mediaprint as good as a free-to-air TV stationswhich, as expected, gave a biased story of a event.
I trawled a Internet over a final draw days to look for commentaries ,eyewitness accounts as good as videos of a convene for giveaway as good as satisfactory elections. As a print media journalist, you additionally longed for to know a border of coverage by a pick media upon a Internet, together with amicable media networks, their effectiveness as good as a open feedback they attracted.
The verdict is this: excluding a sites obviously opposite or for BERSIH, there were most design as good as offset views as good as links which readers would appreciate as good as rationally pondersomething which is sorely not in in Bahasa Malaysia as good as English dailies.
It proposed off good as good as for a throng of 250,000 according to some estimates, it was a peaceful gathering which surprised a lot of Malaysians. The summary longed for to send was basically "signed, sealed as good as delivered" to a nation.
It was an occasion which you as a nation should be proud of: which you can arrange peacefully as good as practice our fundamental rights as good as which no citizen should be incarcerated or discriminated opposite for their domestic ideology or amicable causes.
BERSIH as good as a band of NGOs won a day.The domestic partiesall were invited to stick upon a rallyaccomplished their mission, particularly a Opposition which rode a BERSIH wave as good as had grve ! concerns about a need to clean a electoral roll.
The Police, who showed great patience as good as professionalism in throng control, won a hearts of most as good as Barisan Nasional's picture of being an accommodative supervision which longed for to transform a republic was bolstered too.
It was a win-win incident for all until a tiny organisation of irresponsible protestorsagent provocateurs 
perhaps?broke a barricades which distant them from Dataran Merdeka, which had been declared off-limits by a probity order. But which should not have altered a incident when it was obviously looking to be an dusk which would have made winners of all who adore freedom as good as democracy.
Those early trespassers should have been nabbed rught away as good as effective throng carry out measures taken. The use of tear gas as good as H2O cannons almost rught away should not be a first opposite magnitude to resort to. It did not assistance ease a throng or have them sunder though instead caused be scared as good as strong resentment.
As a citizen who strongly believes in a need to practice as good as protect fundamental liberties enshrined in a Constitution, you respect a right of people to arrange peacefully. As a journalist, you conflict Police savagery inflicted upon fellow reporters as good as cameramen you do their jobs.
The setting up of an eccentric panel to examine claims of Police savagery opposite pressmen covering BERSIH3.0 is acquire though a scope should be widened to embody complaints by all, particularly those who did not break a law or repairs open skill though were knocked about all a same.
The Police has positive a open which all reports will be investigated in a "a thorough, satisfactory as good as pure manner", though not most have confidence i! n cases which involved a Police questioning a Police. The Malaysian Human Right Commission (SUHAKAM), upon a part,has pronounced it would examine complaints of aroused clashes in between a Police as good as protestors as good as confirm later if it should conduct a open inquiry.
News organisations, together with a mainstream media, were vocal upon a diagnosis of their staff by a Police though what about a people,including their readers, who participated in a rally? They merit to be treat a same. As readers, they as well want their stories to be listened as good as for brand new organisations to unquestionably champion their cause as well.
The management as good as editors of headlines organisations who proudly wore black to protest Police savagery opposite pressmen as good as mark World Press Freedom Day (May 3, 2012) should be aware which most some-more protestors were knocked about which day (April 28,2012). It is about probity for a people as good as notbecause of their influencepressmen alone.
And a editors additionally owe it to their photographers as good as reporters who risked their good being as good as safty to record cinema as good as stories of a BERSIH rallysome were rounded off treated with colour tooto be veteran as good as not only present a single side of a story. They owe only as most to their readers.
Maybe it is as well most to expect a mainstream media which is tranquil by a supervision as good as domestic parties to yield a offset perspective when they have been stakeholders in a country's domestic game.
The trust of their readers as good as viewers as good as of a Malaysian open has been breached once as well often. It did not assistance which upon a week World Press Free! dom Day was being celebrated, a country's oldest English daily, which is tranquil by UMNO, was caught edition a headlines story which used a fake quote. The story altered a single word in a debate by Australian senator Nicholas Zenophon upon a Australian Parliament to execute him as anti-Islam.
It was additionally a week which most television viewers felt let down by compensate TV- user ASTRO. It would not have caused as most of a bitch if it had been a free-to-airs as viewers do not have to compensate for a content though when ASTRO censored reports by a BBC as good as Al Jazeera, most felt which this was starting a bit as well far. I, for one, do not compensate to get a BBC as good as Al Jazeera headlines snipped by a censors. And this by a association which proudly thanked a viewers for their await in winning a Putra Brand Award.
That is why even as a journalistwith most friends in a mainstream mediaI still have it a point to roller a Internet for pick views. In a age of digital democracy as good as a liberalisation of a media over a Internet, a single cannot error readers, generally a younger ones, from not trusting as good as ditching a biased mainstream media.
Perhaps a government-controlled mainstream hopes it was still in George Orwell's 1984, unresolved upon to a epoch of Big Brother.
Azam Aris is Deputy Editor-in-Chief during The Edge. Source: The EDGE MALAYSIA, May 7, 2012, p.72
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