Wednesday 12 December 2012

TheBlindJournalist: TV Debate

New Achievement: I was a featured guest on my first ever live TV Debate. The topic was racism and football on SKY Channel 828. I have been on live television several times in the past with all of them being on Ummah Channel however, this was my first appearance on the show Debate Night. I got to meet the presenter of the show, Mohammed Shafiq who is a very big influence and inspiration to myself. I also met two great people whom were fellow featured guests. The debate in itself was fantastic, audience participation was great and many points were raised. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience and I hope there are many more to come.








Saturday 1 December 2012

TheBlindJournalist: Leveson Report

In this blog I am not going to talk about what it says in the report or what the reaction is. I am simply going to give my opinion on proceedings.

My opinion on what Lord Justice Leveson has written in his report about how the press should be run vary. Yes I do agree that there should be a statutory law but dependant on each story, a difficult and possibly impossible task to check every story however if a law is put into place it pressurises true, moral journalists as they wouldn't be able to "freely" produce content. Britain is a free market so therefore it should be a free press which allows journalists who are passionate about their job and journalism in itself to publish content which is necessary. Due to a handful of immoral, heartless and selfish individuals journalism has been degraded in society and true dedicated journalists have been forgotten or brushed to one side. I am extremely passionate about journalism and I do believe that every journalist should be objective and should report "hard stories" as I feel soft stories are not important. On the BBC's Question Time a very important and interesting point was raised that should journalism students of today be taught about ethics and morals of journalism and as a student myself I completely agree that they should. It was utterly wrong what some individuals did to gain stories, I myself don't class them as journalists because they completely went against the morals of journalism however because of them the industry of journalism should not be looked down upon.