Mooie omschrijving
Feb 8th, 2006 by marbel
Dit stuk in ArabNews gaat over de “Toonwar”. Het is genuanceerd, lezenswaardig, en bevat een prachtige omschrijving voor het probleem dat ik heb met de huidige tendens om de onderbuikgevoelens maar lekker uit te schreeuwen:
[...] when you create reservoirs of hatred and moral illiteracy in a society, you are reducing what is of man in man and restoring in him what is of beast.
[...] Also Arab News(Thanks to Marbelous) has an interesting story: Freedom of expression is indeed sacrosanct, and the illustrative effusions of a political cartoonist are as much a function of good journalism as those of his textual counterpart. But the first thing a budding journalist learns in Journalism 101 is that a news story, or a news image, is governed by its newsworthiness. Does it have news value, relevance to the objective world it is reporting or commenting on, or is it motivated by a mean-spirited intent to defame? Does it go beyond satire into the realm of racial stereotyping, contributing to the demonization of a community in the eyes of another, and the hardening of the cultural divide among groups of different ethnic, spiritual and racial backgrounds? [...]