Liberated
The local media have been all over this for over a week.
Actually, they were all over it because of what they couldn't find out. This young guy called Graham McMynn, who comes from a rich family, was kidnapped from his car at gunpoint. What was so weird about this case was that the kidnappers never contacted the family for any demands.
All this time, the police kept quiet about the incident and their investigation, until today when they finally rescued him in a 14-house raid. Arrests were made, but a motive for the kidnapping still hasn't been established yet. Despite facing lots of pressure from the media to cough up some information, the police admirably stuck to their guns and kept their mouths shut for the sake of Graham's safety.
Sometimes the media gets overzealous and uses the public's entitlement to know as leverage, in order to pry out some news regardless of the consequences. We, as the public, are not entitled to know everything, and unless it has a direct and immediate impact on us, some things are best left alone. Just like accountants and CEO's, journalists also have to abide to a code of ethics, or else their actions will demean themselves to the lowness of a bunch of paparazzi filling cheap tabloids with dirt.
As a member of the public, I want to know, but certainly not at the expense of the victim's life.
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Actually, they were all over it because of what they couldn't find out. This young guy called Graham McMynn, who comes from a rich family, was kidnapped from his car at gunpoint. What was so weird about this case was that the kidnappers never contacted the family for any demands.
All this time, the police kept quiet about the incident and their investigation, until today when they finally rescued him in a 14-house raid. Arrests were made, but a motive for the kidnapping still hasn't been established yet. Despite facing lots of pressure from the media to cough up some information, the police admirably stuck to their guns and kept their mouths shut for the sake of Graham's safety.
Sometimes the media gets overzealous and uses the public's entitlement to know as leverage, in order to pry out some news regardless of the consequences. We, as the public, are not entitled to know everything, and unless it has a direct and immediate impact on us, some things are best left alone. Just like accountants and CEO's, journalists also have to abide to a code of ethics, or else their actions will demean themselves to the lowness of a bunch of paparazzi filling cheap tabloids with dirt.
As a member of the public, I want to know, but certainly not at the expense of the victim's life.
(Source)
posted by Cosmic Ocean at 8:51 PM
4 Comments:
I must say my contact with news reporters in my professional life has not been pleasurable hitherto. One can usually identity new reporters in a courtroom not only because they cling to their own like a bed of oysters, but also because they dress in a way that speaks loudly of disrespect to themselves. Their manners are worse, and most of them don't even know enough English to know what's going on and have to ask court clerk in Chinese afterwards. -__-
Any from the South China Morning Post?
The strange thing is, SCMP never seems to report the court cases the local Chinese newspapers (all with a section dedicated thereto) report. -___-
Well, I suppose if they're covering the whole South China region according to their namesake, they wouldn't have the resources nor the room on print to report every local court case in the region.
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