Develop skills of critical thinkingAvoid to be lazy and copy/paste journalist.
Pattern: “U.N. says Rwanda-Congo force kills 9 militiamen.” Copy and paste/Repeat all Western media. No more, no less. Whose the first-hand information? What about civilian casualties? Why do they avoid to show up the deeper circle of hell in which Hutus and Hutu refugees live at each RPF attack, assassination and massacre? ?
Infamous Copy/paste journalists motto: spread the word even if you aren’t sure your source of information tells you the truth of event…
Question: Were they able to convince everybody as to who between Hutus and Tutsis the goodies are, and who the baddies?
Two decades after RPF invaded Rwanda, many revelations about RPF motives proved us once more than ever about the fakeness of Western media telling and reports. This becomes dramatic when our copy/paste journalists silence crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide.
Copy/paste journalists raise criminal issues on Rwanda reports when they spread up second hand information. I know it is an uneasy truce but to copy and paste because of laziness or corruption or propaganda has always raised big issues when there is no mention about casualties and crimes committed by those they are praising.
In these circumstances and under the incentives of the law, it would be prudent for journalists not to take these sorts of risks, particularly when they underestimate the situation and losses of thousands of killed innocent people. It’s a terrific crime not to tell the world how Paul Kagame and his RDF conquerors marching on the Congolese soil are killing innocent people only because they seem to be (apparently and physically) or be born Hutus no matter who they are, Congolese or Rwandan refugees.
How many people got killed in the Congo and not reported by those corrupt journalists? Hutu survivors have been subjected to all kind of horrifying ill-treatments compared to what Europeans experienced during the Nazi occupation.
Since 1990 up to now, we are under the same regime and criminals still rule the country, Rwanda. Every single crime gets experimented on the Rwandan and Congolese soils by Paul Kagame against the targeted and hated majority of Rwanda. No word, no report, no mention about IT in most of the Western media. Who’s to blame, the Western system of reporting information, or let us avoid generalization and finger out those who are doing so in the interest of RPF criminals?
Be that as it may, and regardless of my effort to draw the world decision makers, those criminal media are larger and have greater scope; they can report news and rumors more rapidly and there’s no problem for them even though millions of people got slaughtered. They will say they did the job, meaning spread up the word they’ve been told to. In short, those stupid or corrupt journalists simply require less effort. They just go into copy-paste mode and, without thinking about consequences, encourage killings of the targeted innocent people through ethnic cleansings.
To sum up, such western journalists actions discredit and dishonor the very concept of Journalism. The one-sidedness and overt RPF and pro RPF media propaganda found some of those countries and on Internet is absolutely unthinkable. It is obviously not possible to present all points of view. However each opinion aired is given as the view of one person or representative of one of the sides involved. The newsreader often recapitulates, but does not add any personal comment or judgment.
And on the subject of criticism, it is worth remembering that copy-paste should NOT fall within the duties of a journalist.
Do they think on the reader’s ability to distinguish truth from lies? Quite honestly I have no great optimism about that when I remember what kind of reports made Christian Amanpour of CNN, Linda from BBC, Collette Braekmann of Le Soir and many other so called journalists shaming the treasured job. They knew and still know they spread views which I consider not true but worth lobbying. The current information we receive from those criminal media remind me the Soviet era which foisted their Truth on everybody.
What is more worrying is that they are well aware (so are we, for that matter) which channels they can change to, which newspapers they can read so as to not hear or read unpalatable opinions.
In any case I have doubts as to whether we can emerge victorious from that information war if we use the same tactics. When you hear more or less the same clichés, slogans and accusations from both sides, then you either believe the first you hear, or make your choice on some other, usually subjective, grounds.
© Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a time, yet It cannot be destroyed => Wolverine
