The Horn Cable television interview with Nicholas Kay, United nations special Representative for Somalia was unbalanced
An interview is a conversation — you just happen to have a microphone, camera and notepad. Concentrating too much on the mechanics will prevent you from getting the most out of the discussion. One aspect of listening is to not immediately jump in with your next question the moment the person stops talking. If you wait a second or two, while maintaining eye contact, often the person will keep talking. That is useful if you are asking a question that is difficult to answer. The person will sense that the pause means you’re not satisfied with what you’ve heard and are waiting for more. If you seek to get the person to admit to something, that pause can be the trick that throws the person off-balance enough to get him to say what you want.A TV interview can be as simple as asking questions of people. An interview can make a news story come to life and build your reputation as a probing journalist. Build your skills so that you can lead the people you interview into giving you the information you want. Sometimes, all you want from an interview are some facts.
With respect to the issue of my concern, I had an opportunity to watch an interview television programme from Horn cable television with Nicholas Kay – United Nations special Representative for Somalia conducted by Mohamoud Dualeh and upon completed the short interview, I have compared with the quality and the benchmark of the subject interview with hundreds of interviews related various countries, various continents and found the programme interview was totally far off from any neutrality, as Mr. Dualeh has expressed his personal or self opinion. Media have tremendous power in setting cultural guidelines and in shaping political discourse. It is essential that news media, along with other. Institutions are challenged to be fair and accurate. Balanced media reflect the diversity of the public they serve. Bias is like exclusion leaving one side out of an article or ignoring facts.
Media bias refers to the bias of journalists and news produces within the media in the selection of events of which events and stories are reported and how they are covered. Bias media is the inability of the journalists to report facts.No matter how much we may try to ignore facts, the listeners or viewers determines whether the interview was balanced or unbalanced. However in the case of the subject interview conducted by Mohamoud Dualeh from Horn cable television, the same was acknowledged as worst standard interview of its type, as interviewer only expressed his personal wish which is extremely far from journalism ethics. Mr. Nicholas Kay, United Nations special Representative for Somalia, being a carrier diplomat having a wide-ranging experiences attained from many parts intelligently and sharply pumped Mr. Dualeh with very carefully and diplomatic language based answers, which made the intentions of Mr. Daueh (the interviewer) as abortive being originally basis. Bias is a small word that identifies the collective influences of the entire context of a message. Some Journalists like Mr. Daueh speak from their own political positions view point which indentifies true journalistic manner. What we experienced is that politicians are certainly biased and overtly so, as they belong to parties having their own policies and ideologies.
The journalistic ethics of objectivity and fairness are strong influences on the profession. But journalistic objectivity is not the pristine objectivity of philosophy. Instead, a journalist attempts to be objective by two methods: 1) fairness to those concerned with the news and 2) a professional process of information gathering that seeks fairness, completeness, and accuracy. As we all know, the ethical heights journalists set for themselves are not always reached. But, all in all, like politics, it is an honourable profession in the event practiced in fair manner, which is not of the subject interview. This simplistic thinking fits the needs of ideological struggle, but is hardly useful in coming to a better understanding of what is happening around us. Sometimes the press is often thought of as a unified voice with a distinct bias. I believe journalism is an under-theorized practice. In other words, journalists often do what they do without reflecting upon the meaning of the premises and assumptions that support their practice.
We may begin to reflect upon journalistic practice by noticing that the press applies a narrative structure to ambiguous events in order to create a coherent and causal sense of events. Language use is neutral: Language is associated with a conceptual system. To use the language of a moral or political conceptual system is to use and to reinforce that conceptual system. False assumptions by journalists, rather than overt politicking, help create the political bias news consumers often detect in news reporting. Media bias is an apparent bias of the news anchors or journalist within a gathering by selecting particular measures and stories, which are reported and how they are covered. This implies an insidious contravening the values of journalism slightly than the standpoint of journalist of an article. Media bias is sometimes caused by Journalist failing to report all the existing stories to the audience.In an effort to correct bias, a technique known as point counter point that representatives of contrasting views remark on an issue reported in the media bias. This advance hypothetically allows sundry views to materialize in the media. Journalists have the duty to choose people who actually represent the opinions.
Non bias questions are asked and the comments are edited fairly. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. A good reputation is more valuable than money. Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are. A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. Taken into consideration, we should improve our character to win a good reputation.In conclusion, the media affects our daily lives in numerous ways from television to radio to print. Sometimes these media avenues persuade our opinions on certain political issues. Many people today are not even aware the media is manipulating their way of thinking, while some may believe this is good, there are also consequences and repercussions to believing everything shown on television, radio, and in print. Zooming up, Mr. Duale has it in mind to influence us believe his question, but in reality Nicholas Kay has foiled his objectives. Considering the quality of the interview, no doubt Mr. Kay has taken a bad reputation with regard the standard of our journalism. Reviewing the latest situation in Somalia, it is evident that Mr. Dualeh is unaware that Mr. Nicholas Kay, United Nations special Representative for Somalia is better informed the most up-to-date situation in Somalia than him, which is very much better than compare any time in the past and his interview was sort of political revenge.
Ismail Yusuf.