Raj Kalam :
My today’s article revolves around a few masked fraudsters, yellow journalists, and anti-journalists who have recently corrupted this great profession. Journalism is a great profession, but they have turned it into a business or commerce.
Journalism is more of an addiction, a passion than a profession. This addiction is the addiction to do something for the country and the people. I think a journalist can serve people much more than a doctor can.Just as a teacher plays an important role in nation building, a journalist can help to build a nation and force it to lead it in the right direction. When a journalist loses this addiction, he or she becomes more of a Servicemen than a journalist!
I know the subject I’m writing about today will be very difficult because I’m writing about a community that is more evil than it is terrible. I say “inferior” because we call crows the most inferior animals, but these inferior animals do not eat their own meat, so I cannot but be surprised that masked journalists posing as them do not hesitate to eat the meat of their own kind.So, should we call the crows inferior or these masked, yellow journalists – that means who are in the non- journalism?
I am involved in the journalism profession, but I never identify myself as a journalist, nor do I add the title of journalist anywhere before or after my name, and I will never do that.Because now, people involved in various misdeeds, including activists of fringe political parties, money-grubbers, self-interested people, touts, cheats, drug addicts, extortionists, information concealers, drug traffickers, thugs, scammers, terrorists, and others, are using their cards to take advance their own interests by posing as journalists.
I also blame the editors in charge for collaborating in this work because most of them give cards to these talented people for their own interests (I wrote talented because it is not easy to possess such qualities).
In many cases, it is seen that people who are journalists but lack of the ability to write news. They are editors but lack of their talent to edit. They cannot speak or write two lines/two columns of pure Bengali but they are reporters! A person who doesn’t know what is news, what is not news, or how to write a report becomes a great reporter, columnist, and writer! This is a terrible picture of the world of journalism. From these, misreporting has spred everywhere. And another common term that distorts this misreporting is ‘yellow journalism’.
Now it seems that many people introduce them as journalist, while many others explain that they have 20/25/30 years of experience as journalist, but it’s hard to say, they can’t write a single news story. They even post 10 statuses in a day on Facebook, where 3/4 spelling mistakes in a single line. So where is their experience and journalism? They don’t know that people laugh at them. I was embarrassed to see so many people’s statuses full of mistakes, so I tried to knock on their messenger and correct the mistakes, but they couldn’t be stopped, and many times they were on the verge of being scolded, so I stopped doing such a favor. Some journalists hang cards around their necks and claim to be journalists, and go around different areas trying to find out if any injustice or misdeed is being committed somewhere. They take a few pictures on their mobile phones and post a short status on Facebook from their ID, telling us that something is going to happen in such and such a place. Details coming.. Try to understand him in clue what happened. Then he will understand and call them, and if he is late in calling, the journalist will call him and tell him to make them happy or else threaten to make it a news. My point is, if you are a journalist, report in newspaper, why do post on Facebook? These Facebook journalists take even 50/100 taka, and have brought the journalism profession’s position to where it is today.
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