Where’s the professionalism?

It is hard to figure this one out as far as reporting goes. After all, most world citizens just want the “news”, as in reporting the facts, and that is good enough. Now things in western news seem to have gone off course, at least for a while. Now also we humans have some hope in the more eastern type of reporting, as in these humans are also OK.

Now I think most people wish for the best, and anticipate the worst, and use their news to help them along. Mostly most readers of the “news” just want to learn a business advantage or family advantage they can anticipate to enhance their family’s future. This is so human.

What is hard for this human who lives in the USA is to discern what is “facts” and what is “opinion”. Having been a professionally trained sales person (a USMC recruiter), I understand the idea of a “sales pitch”.

And there is also the rest of humanity, like the rest of the world. My example invokes India, who have I think has 400 million humans living without electricity, so obviously there is no electrically delivered news. Yet I suspect they get their news, one way or the other. And they count, too.

My western type summation is simple. A lot of our fellow humans are simply different from people not like us, like easterners, and they have families and values, too. If you follow this logic, then perhaps we can lead a new way to just reporting the “news”. How about “just the facts”, which takes a lot of work and time in western talk. This idea, in academic talk, would be a paradigm shift. It’s going to happen, just how is the question? What’s the local joke…do you want fries with your order?

Now easterners are no better, since they are humans, too. But perhaps we humans can exploit all this now long established, and latest technological means, to transmit information, to include the news.

What appears to me is that so many of our young people in journalism schools are being taught about how to deliver the news, and even how you look, is a big deal. Now this idea may work on parents, but I don’t think it will work on the world, including the USA.

Now this will take some professionalism to make things better. Ideas like oaths mean something will come into play.

Are the western educators up to this. I hope so, since I am a westerner. But if not, then I guess people like them will simply be superseded in time.

Would you like fries with your order?