Many will certainly agree with me when I say that some of eTV's staffers are highly unprofessional. This takes particular reference to some of the eTV news presenters, who rather choose not to follow media journalistic principles and ethics. I'm not really sure if the staffers or the management team is to blame.
It was a pain to me when I watched the Tuesday 18 February (1900hrs) eTV news and sadly came across a news reporter who reported about two Zimbabwean illegal miners who died in a mine trap near Benoni at South Africa. I believe all human beings who have healthy and functional minds have feelings, not to talk about those reporters who are even trained to have that in their minds.
"They have finally paid the 'ultimate price' of mining illegally." That is what the female journalist said when she commented on the sad incident. Yet the journalistic principles say that practitioners have an obligation to exercise their personal conscience, and that includes using your rational mind as a human being to present issues fairly.
It was a big shame and a very painful moment for me when someone decided to be overconfident on a national television station, and demonstrate to the whole of South Africa that death is less serious or painful when it befalls foreigners. Like that was enough, it did not take a blind man and the dumbest fool to see the smile that was on her face when she presented the sad news. One could swear she is the devil that the Holy Bible tells us about.
A properly trained journalist should know better. Journalistic principles say that practitioners should keep the news comprehensive and in proportion, and that doesn't say 'misrepresent' certain groups in society! I could even swear this so called eTV 'reporter' has never ran across a phrase that spells 'N-U-E-T-R-A-L L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E! Quite awkward when you are in the Journalism field.
Just a big shout out to the poor eTV Reporter: "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO JOURNALISM!"
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