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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Yo.
Just fresh from a talk about journalism. Yeah that's what I'd love to do with my life: especially a newspaper journalist, mm mmm.
The journalist told us that it's a good idea to write a little every day in order to develope a certain style, as well as a good grasp on english (obviously important).
Sooooo...do you guys think I have any particular style, or does it change to match what I'm talking about?
Anyway.
I do know that I need to keep up to date on issues, especially since I'm entering a competition. "Question Time" is a show on TV which encourages live debate between members of the public and guest speakers (ranging from politicians to [random] TV personalities). Yeah we're doing our own version of that. If we win, we'll go to London and produce our own show. Yup. ^_^. That'd be cool. Me and Sarah are doubting whether we'd get to go on TV as such, as we're pretty much small fries in the social fish and chips...thing...so we're going to damn well make sure we work hard behind everyone else to make it clear and original. Assuming that we do win, which we may not.
Grr. Do you know what's really getting on my goat? This furore the politicians have created surrounding Saddam Hussein's hanging. I don't agree with state execution, not even for someone as tyrannical as him, but I do respect the fact that it was Iraqi justice. That's important. It's important to support Iraq's legal system: all these western countries are interfering, and western politicians are viewing the hanging as though it had been committed in a western country. No it hasn't. There are politicans out there who supported the downfall of Saddam Hussein, and who MUST have known that to ensure him an Iraqi trial meant that he would be executed. And now they're suddenly all outspoken against it. Damn them.
I do condemn the taunts Saddam Hussein faced. To be fair, this is what a good number of politicans are more worried about. Yes, he was a tyrant, yes he was cruel. But the fact that he was opposed and overthrown was enough. He was on his way to DIE for his crimes. He was being punished, and he was going to die right in front of them - and he was taunted.
And of course there's the controversy surrounding the images of his death. This is a difficult one. On the one hand, the Iraqi government felt the need to prove that Saddam was dead. This is fair enough to me, considering that conspiracy theorists would have had a field day otherwise. On the other, the way they were filmed was blunt - too blunt for some. One particular image that sticks in mind is the image of him lying in a white shroud, his neck twisted. One British journalist is asking "Why is violent pornography rightly considered obscene within the boundaries of democracy, when the images of a dead Saddam Hussein twisting o the rope are available on every news website, and seen on every programme?"
Make up your own minds, people, that's what they're there for.
Emma.
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