{"id":1774,"date":"2019-10-22T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/?page_id=1774"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:49:53","slug":"many-at-times-journalists-are-too-emotionally-involved-in-the-stories-they-are-covering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/many-at-times-journalists-are-too-emotionally-involved-in-the-stories-they-are-covering\/","title":{"rendered":"Many at times journalists are too emotionally involved in the stories they are covering"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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A serious issue at hand is how to distinguish media reporting from media activism, is it appropriate for well-established media personnel to take part in a protest they are reporting on?\u00a0 By openly endorsing the activity that one party is engaging in as a just course whereas the other is wrong. For instance when there is a conflict between workers of a given factory and their employers. They gather in masses and move into the streets demanding better pay, upon investigating further, the reporter discovers that workers have been experiencing very harsh conditions, so the reporter takes on another role as a workers rights activist, she writes\u00a0 statements which appeared in the evening headlines, describing how dangerous the factory is, \u201cmany workers nearly suffocated at basement due to poor air conditioning\u201d, she wrote, \u201cthere are also huge sharp objects that have tattered the floors, others protrude from the walls and hang dangerously from the roof, many workers after completing\u00a0 two years of their contract went home with lung disease, physical injuries, etc.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Such remarks drew the attention of the factory owners from the protesting workers to the journalist herself, \u201cdid you come here as a reporter or as a workers rights activist?\u201d which one are you?\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

There is a likelihood that taking sides in a dispute<\/a> by media personnel fuels more conflict when one part feels they are being threatened by their presence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Should journalists join a group of protesting crowds and mingle with them, hold their banners, shout their slogans, or should they refrain from the commotion, stand far away, watch from a distance describing what is happening without having to involve themselves in any way. \u201cThese are workers\u2019 rights at stake here, something must be done, or else\u2026\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0This move leads some viewers to hate their once favorite newspersons.<\/p>\r\n

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