You and your sub-editors deserve to be
chased out of the Sowetan newsroom
“With fame I become more and more
stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.” Albert
Einstein. Hopefully the Sowetan doesn’t report to accumulate the
status of being famous.
I have been watching you for a quantity of good and bad
times, this happens whilst you are busy trying to sell your toilet paper despite
the consequences of the ethics that every medium must be standardised upon.
At the outset of all, well I thought I should let slip the
fact that you’ve recently made a no-public interest matter a public interest.
To be forthright with you: the police and the prison warder’s sex tape and
photographs were not a matter of public interest until it appeared on your
toilet roll. Nor that I am saying what they did was first-class, but I am
tackling the manner in which you went all out about it without considering
their families. Looking at the tape you didn’t think of the setup by the male
prison warder as he appeared like preparing the recording piece of equipment and
called in the female police after!
Secondly as a medium you have the duty to shield children of
which you botched completely in the above case. You didn’t fail children in the
whole sense because you were I would presume educating them about what happens
when one engages in such behaviour at work. But you have failed the children of
the involved parties. You’ve intentionally caused trauma to these families, by
saying “intentionally” I mean you were very clear about what you were doing
from the foundation.
It was very witty, but understandable of your editor who
backed you up on Special Assignment without being aware of the garbage that was
coming out of his dustbin. Okay now you’ve made history in the South African
media and it has been recorded, so my questions are: whose reputation you going
to tarnish in order to be sold out again? Does your newspaper have internal
ethical guidelines to help mould a better society? Take time and answer these questions with
your head held high!
I know that every medium have bills to pay, but I question
the manner in which you do it. After looking at one of your headlines
yesterday, “An unborn baby popped out of
a pregnant woman’s stomach into a pit toilet as she was relieving herself at
the weekend,” I was a bit concerned about whether those are crafted by
journalist(s) or just a bunch of dumb individuals who also happen to lack the
knowledge to differentiate between a stomach and a womb. Even bloggers are
doing much better compared to you.
As much as some people or your target readers like you will
not generally know what a “womb” is, I would then argue that “stomach” was used
as a term which would be comprehended easily; but still you’re misleading the
public. “…Relieving herself at the
weekend.” I don’t know whether I am dumb or clever, but is there any place
called “The weekend” or rather say during the weekend?
Honestly you need to think of a better way to craft your
headlines, because they are misleading and to such an extent appear to be
stupid. You need to let go off bad grammar and spelling errors in “some” of
your articles, while you have an editor with a held up sky high ego. If we keep
on spotting errors in your newspaper, then what is the duty of editors and
subs? They deserve to be fired! We cannot afford a garbage bin media! Plus I
don’t know how you guys justify such errors as a very experienced medium. But
let’s hope everything goes well in future copies, as I will be watching you
very closely.
Until Next week Ntathe says spread love…
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