Monday, November 8, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AS SEEN BY JOURNALISTS
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Freedom of expression is the basic factor that all decisions are based on. Without this, nobody will be able to express their views/ opinions about everything. There are certain people that have advantages when it comes to expressing their views and the views of the public. I have chosen to conduct my research on journalists, because they have a major impact on our lives and our voices. All the vital information that is delivered to us has come from that of journalists.
For journalists, freedom of expression must have the most significance. After interviewing many journalists, most of them have given responses to the same effect. Michelle stated that “As a journalist freedom of expression means that everyone has a right to be heard and to have their own opinion. It also means that reporters have a right to tell things as if they are without fear of repercussions”. With relevance to the above mentioned question, it was also important to know what major impact/s freedom of expression had on peoples’ lives. Were the voices of the people actually being heard, or were the journalists just sending across their objective messages. Kaveel Singh made the following statement “I think with each paper that is printed someone’s voice is being heard. In a smaller community paper this is evident in every issue we print”.
The most important question that evolves from the outcome of these two questions are: What do you think has changed the most in media and your career in the last few years? Michelle has given me tremendous feedback on this question. This is very encouraging, as it should give everybody the confidence that their voices are being heard and that there is in actual fact an improvement in their lives. She states that “The most significant change in my career has been the advent of the Internet and the way this has affected the delivery of information. Most recently the increase in popularity of Facebook and Twitter has opened up new avenues and ways of promoting your brand and reaching your target audience”.
Although we may have improved or progressed in many ways, there will always be those boundaries or limitations that are in place. Journalists have many different boundaries in comparison to the different public spheres. Journalists of different newspapers from different communities may have many different limitations, depending on their specialization. Ms Moodley stated: “The only boundaries we have are - is it interesting and is it pertinent to the community in which we operate. We choose our stories based on what interest our reporters and what we feel reflects the state of our community. Obviously there is the aspect of writing responsibly and not choosing stories which will have far-reaching and negative consequences, just for the sake of printing a scandalous story.
Freedom of expression is the basic factor that all decisions are based on. Without this, nobody will be able to express their views/ opinions about everything. There are certain people that have advantages when it comes to expressing their views and the views of the public. I have chosen to conduct my research on journalists, because they have a major impact on our lives and our voices. All the vital information that is delivered to us has come from that of journalists.
For journalists, freedom of expression must have the most significance. After interviewing many journalists, most of them have given responses to the same effect. Michelle stated that “As a journalist freedom of expression means that everyone has a right to be heard and to have their own opinion. It also means that reporters have a right to tell things as if they are without fear of repercussions”. With relevance to the above mentioned question, it was also important to know what major impact/s freedom of expression had on peoples’ lives. Were the voices of the people actually being heard, or were the journalists just sending across their objective messages. Kaveel Singh made the following statement “I think with each paper that is printed someone’s voice is being heard. In a smaller community paper this is evident in every issue we print”.
The most important question that evolves from the outcome of these two questions are: What do you think has changed the most in media and your career in the last few years? Michelle has given me tremendous feedback on this question. This is very encouraging, as it should give everybody the confidence that their voices are being heard and that there is in actual fact an improvement in their lives. She states that “The most significant change in my career has been the advent of the Internet and the way this has affected the delivery of information. Most recently the increase in popularity of Facebook and Twitter has opened up new avenues and ways of promoting your brand and reaching your target audience”.
Although we may have improved or progressed in many ways, there will always be those boundaries or limitations that are in place. Journalists have many different boundaries in comparison to the different public spheres. Journalists of different newspapers from different communities may have many different limitations, depending on their specialization. Ms Moodley stated: “The only boundaries we have are - is it interesting and is it pertinent to the community in which we operate. We choose our stories based on what interest our reporters and what we feel reflects the state of our community. Obviously there is the aspect of writing responsibly and not choosing stories which will have far-reaching and negative consequences, just for the sake of printing a scandalous story.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Freedom of Press
Hello friends, hope you all had a great weekend, this week i want you to please add your view on Freedom of Press. It does not have to be alot, just what you think it is. Thank you for your time, enjoy the rest of your week, take care.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/opinion/20tue3.html?_r=1&ref=freedom_of_speech_and_expression
Hello to all of you reading my blog. Hope all has had a great week. This is an article on freedom of expression and how certain countries ban things that people use to express there views. In Moscow art is forbidden and two people have been jailed. Hope you all enjoy this article, till next week, take care and good bye.
Hello to all of you reading my blog. Hope all has had a great week. This is an article on freedom of expression and how certain countries ban things that people use to express there views. In Moscow art is forbidden and two people have been jailed. Hope you all enjoy this article, till next week, take care and good bye.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Allegedly True
Hello everyone, hope you all have had a pleasant week. This is the 3rd post and this post is going to show you the work that i am doing for my NEWS TEAM. The first part of the article was the hardest, It involved my news team going out and doing research on a topic that is suitable for this article. We had a lot of information that was available on a certain person and his acts. He is Mr Bheki Cele, he is also the present police chief general and during the past few months he has been involved in fraudulent activities.A billionaire businessman has clinched a dodgy R500-million property deal with him and this is the main activity that we will be looking at. Over the next few months my news team and i will be following this case very closely. So please return to my page and i will keep you updated on the latest breaking news.
The following links have critical information that deals with our article:
1.http://www.newstime.co.za/SouthAfrica/Bheki_Cele_Defends_Himself_Against_Lease_Allegations/8667/
2.http://www.news24.com/Tags/People/bheki_cele
3.http://waine.iblog.co.za/2010/08/04/general-bheki-cele%E2%80%99s-response-alleged-dodgy-tender-deal/
4.http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article579403.ece/Bheki-Celes-R500m-police-rental-deal
Thank you for your time, until next week, take care and enjoy the rest of the week. PEACE
Monday, August 23, 2010
MY ROLE
Good day everyone, welcome back to my blog. It’s the 2nd week and I am going to tell you the roles I am going to play in our news team. First of all, I hope you guys and girls had a great week and I hope we would get along much better once we get to know each other.
As a member of this group I would like to be one of the journalists that does research and prepares articles to hand in to the editors. This sort of role takes up a lot of time, but I am prepared to work as hard as possible. My work will be a summarised article that will explore many subtopics that is relevant to our main topic.
The Subtopic that I have interest in is Media law, freedom of press and freedom of information. These aspects are the ones that I, as an individual will enjoy writing about. Some of the questions I will be answering are “What is freedom of press?”, “What laws is there that prevent media from being published?”, “What type of information is restricted from being published?” etc.
This information could help us understand what media and information can be published and what is restricted by law from being published. In this project I wish to make a major contribution of information that will help us to complete the task at hand. That’s all for now mates, enjoy the rest of the week, till next week, Goodbye.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The Freedom To Express
Hello everyone! My name is Dinolan Pillay, I am 18years of age and I am a 1st year University student. I am born and raised in Durban, South Africa and I love the atmosphere to death. I study at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Howard campus. The course that i am studying is a Bachelor of Social Science, in the field of geography and environmental management. My hope and dream as a University student is to obtain a Masters degree in the course that I am studying. Most of all, I am trying to have as much fun as possible while I am still young.
In South Africa our technology is not as advanced as the U.S.A, Great Britain ect. Although we still have the same resources of the news that these countries have. I am very lucky to have all the resources offered like, newspapers, TV, internet and many more, but South Africa is a developing country and it is not available to lots of people. The newspapers I have access to are namely, The Daily News, The Post, Sunday Times and many others. I have access to premium TV channels that broadcast news 24/7, they are CNN, e news, Sky news, Euro news and many others. Internet services are available to me and I mostly read the news on The New York Times website. Newspapers are available in South African languages, but TV and Internet services allow me to get news in many languages from around the world. What i enjoy watching on TV is sport, adventure and comedy. The things that i most enjoy reading is books on technology and entertainment magazines.
Now my attention turns to "Freedom of Expression". Freedom of expression can be explained in many different ways, but i am going to give you my understanding of the term. To me "Freedom of Expression" means that every person has the right to express his/her personal views and opinions. They have no one that can tell them that you cannot say all that they want to.
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