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SPEAK .CONFLICTS MATTER. Several years ago we could not imagine that Ukraine will have the 154 place out of 163 in Global Peace Index. Ian Buruma “ The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance”.
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Several years ago we could not imagine that Ukraine will have the 154 place out of 163 in Global Peace Index.
Ian Buruma “The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance” The "civil war" that some feared, the pogroms on Muslim areas, the retaliations by newly recruited jihadis, none of this actually happened. Most people kept their cool. But the constant chatter of politicians, newspaper columnists, television pundits, headline writers, and editorialists in the popular press produced a feverish atmosphere in which the smallest incident, the slightest faux pas, would spark endless rounds of overheated commentary.
#1 REASON FOR MY DISSERTATION “THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM CONCEPT AS THE MAIN SUGGESTIVE MECHANISM OF SOCIAL JOURNALISM” Martin Bell defines “journalism of attachment” as a journalism which recognises the media as part of this world and one ‘that is aware of its responsibilities, that will not stand neutrally between good and evil, right and wrong, the victim and the oppressor’ THERE IS NO OBJECTIVITY DURING THE WAR.
What is important? Media product Someone’s life Journalist’s life
If you see that human life is in danger, will you “deliver” your media product in exchange for this life? DECISION DELIVERY DEPENDS ON SAFETY OBSTACLES
LANGUAGE AND OTHER ARTIFICIAL “ISSUES” A man is hiking in the mountains somewhere in the Carpathians and gets lost. He sees two men. They are hutsuls (ethnical group in Western Ukraine). He ask them the way in Russian. They do not answer. He asks them in English. They do not answer. He asks them in French, German… They do not answer. The man desperately walks away. One hutsul says to the other, “You see, the man is so-well educated, knows so many languages…” The other says, “And? How did it help him?”
HOW TO COVER THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE? • Do not mention the differences. Name the similarities. • Be multi-lingual and multi-cultural. • Take one side as a human and truth side as a journalist. • Do not blame. • Participate in life, not in war. • Help and save. • Show alternatives. • Break the stereotypes.
THE GODFATHER OF THE “JOURNALISM OF ATTACHMENT” The book was published in 2017. The author: Martin Bell, former BBC correspondent, worked as a correspondent during the conflicts in Vietnam, Middle East, Nigeria, Angola, and in Northern Ireland. He was even seriously wounded in Sarajevo.