2) Audio is about as much of a consideration to these people as the price of shoes in Papua New Guinea is to a Martian fish vendor. How many times do I see somebody making a speech on TV and all I can hear is the rapid fire click click click of a photographer standing directly next to the camera mic - the YBs words being eaten by background noise, or the ever present hum of the air con. I saw one event being covered by RTM radio, there was a lady sitting about 20 meters from the stage, with a shotgun mic in her hand (maximum effective range 12 meters) and sort of pointing it in the general direction of the stage whilst she took a snooze. The audio from that must have been terrible - and this was for the national radio (?!). Amazingly she was sat less than 5 meters from the main sound desk, she could have just plugged a cable into that and had a proper sleep - thus her ignorant lazyness was her own loss, as well as the listeners loss.
3) At press conferences, when it comes to "Question Time" I find the situation utterly laughable. "Anybody have any questions?" silence, total silence reigns supreme. 5 minutes of embarrassed awkward silence, as journos hide their faces in their plates of free food (the only reason they are there). And then what? Why are they there? Is not the point of a press conference to ask questions? Haven't you ever watched the TV from other countries where the press are frantically shouting over each other to ask questions? Nope, they just take the Press Pack and write verbatim what is inside (hence all the newspapers all carry the same stories written in almost the exact same words). Lazy buggers.
4) I spoke to a few journo friends (who might be termed as the Old Guard) and they are constantly embattled by the new generation, who know nothing but think that they are lords and masters of the printed word because they graduated from a joke university course. Thus the new generation of journos has zero interest in learning how to be a journalist. There are no doubt sub-editors out there in newspaper land who would scarcely qualify as typesetters or even van drivers, but there they are, in charge of what you read - how did they get there? Was it based on merit? In the old days it took weeks, even months to get your first by-line, 6 months or more before you got a main story. Front page was a landmark moment in your career. Now it seems by-lines come on the first day of work "here, just knock this out" and thus the readers minds are constantly bombarded with what I like to refer to as "kindergarten journalism".
5) Nobody actually goes out an looks for stories. A word of advice kids, it's called "Investigation" you can look it up in the dictionary (which is a big book full of words). Journalists here seem to just sit and wait for the "stories" to fall in their lap - I presume this is the reason why there is so much politics in the papers, as the governments propaganda people have an endless spout of 10pt diahorreah to squirt onto the presses, and nobody can be bothered to get off their bums to find something more interesting to fill the gaps between the adverts.
Comment: They pick on helpless people and have no guts to go after vice syndicates, politicians, criminals and rich people.They don't even have the guts to ask any dispute questions. They lack professionalism and bunch of fools writing rubbish reports and articles.
With this kind of "journalists", useless politicians will live happy for their remaining term.
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