http://marbel.info/blog/index.php/archives/2006/02/08/mooie-omschrijving/ marbels marvels Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://marbel.info/blog/index.php/archives/2006/02/08/mooie-omschrijving/comment-page-1/#comment-1177 C L O S E R Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:14:17 +0000 http://marbel.info/blog/index.php/archives/2006/02/08/mooie-omschrijving/#comment-1177 [...] 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? [...] [...] 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? [...]

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