According to Peace, photojournalists are regarded by society as contemporary cultural heroes being "supremely adaptive, ever ingenious, streetwise, and being able to talk his way through near impenetrable contexts". Also, photojournalists are of a higher status by having "been there and done that" under fire and still lived to tell the tale, though for those who haven't, they have been promoted to martyrdom. It would seem that Peace is referring "society" to the international community at large. .
Strangely enough, in the context of the sacking of the then Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim in September of 1998, local photojournalists did not receive such "celebrity" status from the local community, and neither did the foreign photojournalists. Instead, they were considered as idiots looking for trouble in a problem that wasn't theirs if they were being naughty and reporting what they shouldn't. Malaysian culture is basically that of conformity and compliance. Before going in any deeper, let me let you all in on the current state of affairs in the journalism world in Malaysia.
First, by and large and for a long, long time now, the Malaysian mainstream media - the press and broadcasting - have never aspired to be the guardians of the freedom of speech. I don't think any Malaysian, including the so-called journalists in the media, can argue with the assertion that, thus far, the mainstream media have been nothing more than Barisan Nasional (the Malaysian ruling coalition's) mouthpiece. This is because all of the major Malaysian media organizations are owned and controlled or closely associated with the ruling coalition. To a large extent, this allocative control helps to explain why these media organisations rarely - if ever - break ranks. .
To further reinforce such economic controls, the coalition has a slew of laws at its disposal - the Printing Presses and Publications Act, the Control of Imported Publications Act, the Internal Security Act, and the Official Secrets Act, to name a few - to control the media.
In his book, "Great Souls," journalist David Aikman describes how Mother Teresa never relied on worldly power. ... I told him he was a great hero to many of us in the West. ... "I am no hero. A hero is someone who does something he doesn't have to. ... She is truly a hero to all.and dedication. ...
The hero's do their work on the field and on the court. ... The most common form of these is a sports hero. ... Next, there are civilian heroes. These heroes have struck on an emotional chord with the world. ... Each individual has their unique definition as to what heroes should be. ...
In the first Act one accounts Macbeth as being a brave and worthily warrior who is a hero of Scotland. ... Macbeth now has turned from a hero of his country to a murder of his kinsmen to get what he wants. ... It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing" (Act 5 Sc-5 Li-16-27). ... Macbeth in the beginning was viewed, as a hero, later turned out to be a villain and a traitor. ... In the end Macbeth actions was not worth a penny because the price has his life, he now knows that greed is a tale told by idiots. ...
In its recent report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has placed Ethiopia the third worst country in Africa for journalists. ... Recently, many award winning journalists have had their freedom confiscated to write and were put behind bars to hush their voices. ... " Since the introduction of this law, several journalists have been arrested. ... Journalists may publish what the government may not want to hear. ... Thus, I would like ask officials to be more tolerant towards journalists. ...
In 1941, after the divorce with Pauline and new marriage with Martha, they went to the Japan-China war zone to be journalists. ... He was a novelist creating wonderful novels, columnist, and journalist for different magazines. ... When Hemingway started his "new" life in Paris as an author he continued to be a journalist for The Toronto Star and covered the Lausanne Peace Conference, which is held to settle territorial disputes between Greece and Turkey. ... During one of his trips to Spain, Hemingway became a journalist for the North American News Alliance (NANA), while also being a narrator ...
Deciding on what to report and how to report it poses an ethical dilemma for journalists covering the war. ... Respected journalist Ted Koppel, who is reporting from Iraq, does not believe that broadcast journalists should be "notifying the next of kin through images of the dead soldiers- (Kurtz). ... Any embedded journalists who threaten security are given one warning. If a second violation occurs, the journalist is escorted out of the unit. - (Dunlap). ... Apparently then, the journalists' reports do not pose a threat to our troops. ...
Jacob Riis "I loved him from the day I saw him; nor ever in all the years that passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years we were brothers on Mulberry Street. (Theodore Roosevelt www.richmondhillhistory.org) Jacob Riis was a helpful kind of guy a...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy truly is a twentieth century American hero. ... First, there is the Rogue-Hero. ... The second category of hero is the citizen-hero. ... Kennedy achieve his military citizen-hero status. ... He was an exceptional writer, but not a true American hero. ...
