2017年2月2日木曜日

Future form of journalism

What is the future form of journalism.

Our prof. Marc Sandalow took us to Newseum in Washington DC.

The first stop was Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery.
That picture of a naked girl running away from the bombs during the Vietnam War?
That picture where a hunting bird is staring at a starving baby in Africa?
Those are few of the prize-winning pictures.

Having been around the world, I though I knew relatively more.
But
I never knew the end of Apartheid was so brutal in South Africa:
a person was running while his entire body is burning.
I never knew students in Bangkok were so blood-thirsty:
beating up with a chair a dead body hanging from a tree.
I never knew so many shootings have occurred in America.

And
Knowing is not seeing.

Tears were running down my cheeks while looking at all the pain and sufferings around the world.
And those were purifying tears. Tears of compassion.

I have received offers from strategic consulting companies.
but now I am sure that business is not where I belong.
I am not interested in promoting another product that will promote consumerism, increasing inequalities, a service that will double the revenues of a company.

I want to work with these people who are hurt.
where? how?
I will not be a journalist, or a photographer, but as long as I will not lose these feelings of a compassion, I will find a place where I will be of use.


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