By: Wazi Kunene
Call her a critic but it is 'deviants' like her who resembles the courage to change the focus of the lens, Wazi Kunene is a first year journalism student at Rhodes Unviversity. She is a passionate writer and very concerned with journalism in the 21st centuary. She is not experienced in the feild but hopes to make this blog a learning engine specifically with students currently studying jurnalism and proffessional journalists; creating a space for a mentor-mentee enviroment. Unfortunately this blog is going to be a victim through which she will share her deepest concerns about journalism. Discussing significant issues; ranging for ethics to story production in media institutions. It will be benefiting to follow this blog, for it will be open for, interesting and provoking topics and debating on the issue of what are 'news worthy' stories and the constant focus to diruptions, why focus on negative rather than positive.
More significantly than making points this blog will be a means of questioning the systems and structures of media institutions. Further having an opinion on the news produced every day; the kind of news available for people to consume, story construction and the turning of real life events to news stories. How did journalism take a turn for being a source of informing the world of important political concerns to thick newspapers filled with depressing, provoking and scandalous news; further saying it is the reflection of the world, through the watchers of the world: journalists.
These concerns need to be raised importantly because we are in the feild of journalism and we need to be clear about the journalism we will produce. Will we be watching the world through lens that only captures the negative? Will we be having sleepless nights digging up scandals and will we be jobless if nobody dies and if politicians and celebrities stoped having affairs? We need to be critical and not narrow minded, be informed of the world we are approaching. What difference can we bring to this industry and how can we avoid our talents and passions from being shut down by restriction of 'news values'. Will we be able to speak through the daily disruptions we will be reporting on? These are among the issues we need discuss and share our opinions about.
Journalism is said to give a voice to the voiceless, the question is what voice is being is given to people of a partivular class, gender, age and race? Journalism is a highly constructed feild and we need to be prepared and consider the question, so what? In stories we are still to tell and chane the focus of the lens, it is about time.
Call her a critic but it is 'deviants' like her who resembles the courage to change the focus of the lens, Wazi Kunene is a first year journalism student at Rhodes Unviversity. She is a passionate writer and very concerned with journalism in the 21st centuary. She is not experienced in the feild but hopes to make this blog a learning engine specifically with students currently studying jurnalism and proffessional journalists; creating a space for a mentor-mentee enviroment. Unfortunately this blog is going to be a victim through which she will share her deepest concerns about journalism. Discussing significant issues; ranging for ethics to story production in media institutions. It will be benefiting to follow this blog, for it will be open for, interesting and provoking topics and debating on the issue of what are 'news worthy' stories and the constant focus to diruptions, why focus on negative rather than positive.
More significantly than making points this blog will be a means of questioning the systems and structures of media institutions. Further having an opinion on the news produced every day; the kind of news available for people to consume, story construction and the turning of real life events to news stories. How did journalism take a turn for being a source of informing the world of important political concerns to thick newspapers filled with depressing, provoking and scandalous news; further saying it is the reflection of the world, through the watchers of the world: journalists.
These concerns need to be raised importantly because we are in the feild of journalism and we need to be clear about the journalism we will produce. Will we be watching the world through lens that only captures the negative? Will we be having sleepless nights digging up scandals and will we be jobless if nobody dies and if politicians and celebrities stoped having affairs? We need to be critical and not narrow minded, be informed of the world we are approaching. What difference can we bring to this industry and how can we avoid our talents and passions from being shut down by restriction of 'news values'. Will we be able to speak through the daily disruptions we will be reporting on? These are among the issues we need discuss and share our opinions about.
Journalism is said to give a voice to the voiceless, the question is what voice is being is given to people of a partivular class, gender, age and race? Journalism is a highly constructed feild and we need to be prepared and consider the question, so what? In stories we are still to tell and chane the focus of the lens, it is about time.
very nice and thought provoking piece wANDI sisi and I CERTAINLY agree with you. You guys, our blogs are useless and pointless if we do not have followers because we are just writing powerful things that will not be seen by anyone except for us, which is our relevant groups. I am appealing to this group to start the action of joining as many #rublogs as you can so that others can join it in return and that way we are creating a cycle and yet another bond as journ students. Do it guys and our blogs won't go unnoticed, I know recognition is something that we all want and I DONT BLAME YALL COZ WHO WUDNT WEN we all have so much to say and challenge in this society we are living...Let us start now and make this happen!!!
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