What News Have You Brought Us Today?

By Dode Sescri

Messengers are known to have been attacked for delivering bad news to their bosses and everyday reporters get attacked in their line of duty when gathering newsworthy pieces of information on behalf of the general public. Journalism is the only profession in the whole world where the primary job of the employees is to dig up dirt on others. Well nobody likes being publicly exposed however nice a person they are by nature, when something unfavorable about them gets aired they are naturally inclined to retaliate, which could mean causing harm to the people that dug up dirt on them in the first place.

The downside of journalism is that a lot of news the reporters gather is always negative. When you turn on your TV to listen to the evening news, you are bombarded by an endless stream of bad news, so much misery and negativity is what fills the lives of these reporters. Some of those folks' lives completely changed once they became news anchors. And for this same reason, most news anchors begin their careers as very happy and cheerful fellows but unfortunately retire very dull and gloomy. The negative and heart-wrenching stories they have been airing for decades really get onto them and start to affect their way of thinking. It affects the way they see the people around them and the world in general. The first people to notice these changes are the family members of those journalists. They come to realize that something inside their loved ones started to change from the moment they became journalists, be it either field correspondents, news anchors, or investigative journalists.

We are surrounded by a world filled with news of all kinds, the modern-day technologies bombard you with so much news in which you find it hard to distinguish facts from fiction. The word ''Fake News'' is not a Trump's invention. In fact many years before his coming into office, there was a growing mistrust by viewers towards the mainstream media, because some of the stories they aired turned out to be outright lies. His words only ignited the rage and dissatisfaction that had been boiling in the public's hearts for many years. He touched an inflamed nerve and that was enough to bring forth what we now call ''Fake News Global Phenomenon''. Lying even for once is enough to damage the reputation of your media house. Even if you delivered a thousand accurate news and told just a single lie, that is all viewers need to turn away from you.

Now with the emergence of social media, the uncertainty is made even worse, anyone can post anything on social media and call it news. It's a more volatile and dangerous world out there right now, the world in which the current generation is growing up is totally different from what the millennials and those previous generations grew up in. it’s a wild world out on the internet there, everyone, therefore, has to be careful with what they read or listen to. Because no one can really be trusted with news.

Bolton is paranoid about the media, he tries to make sense of what it really is, how it functions, its purpose, aims and goals in society, and how it has influenced him over the past decades, although he is very scared of finding himself in the media spotlight someday, at the same time he discovers a hidden edge, an important value the world owes the media.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dode Sescri
• Release date: Sep 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311834768

Dode Sescri

Let me tell you a story, it goes like this..."Once upon a time there lived a rat and a cat, they were very good friends, they lived happily in their wooden shack, they shared everything between themselves, when one of them got some food, he would share it with the other. One day the rat did something very bad, he annoyed the cat who then out of rage slapped him very hard, the rat was seriously injured by the blow and then died. That’s the end of my story..."Yarn spinning is a skill that is deeply ingrained in our blood, we are descended from a long line of great story tellers, there is no story we don’t know how to tell, we always find time to amaze our audiences with great tales, both the contemporary and the legends of the old...My old time friends Jiji and Kaki are the two fellows that have greatly influenced my writing and life at large, when you hear them speak you are led to think they know everything, Jiji was very good at debates, I don’t remember a single day when he lost a contest. Kaki on the other hand was a great story teller, I don’t know where he got his stories from, we simply enjoyed them, we never cared about his sources either, he had lots of them too. One thing I loved about this little fellow was that I never got bored around him. He would flood your ears with thousands of stories at a time and there is no single moment when he will tell you the same story twice. Jiji was somehow a fanatic. When there is a discussion then individuals get stuck at a point where nobody has any further information, all are ignorant, that’s when he jumps onto the dance floor, claiming he knows it all, I have never met anyone who loved arguments more than Jiji, even a simple discussion he would turn it into an argument. He had a strange way of convincing people to believe his claims, even though you had with you solid facts that proved him otherwise, you still couldn’t beat him...

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WHAT NEWS HAVE YOU BROUGHT US TODAY?

By Dode Sescri

WORDS TO ELATE

First Agenda

Copyright © 2016 DODE®

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Disclaimer

All readers are welcome to challenge the contents of this book, and should process them with their uttermost intellectual capabilities before they can assess them for reference purposes because they are largely a work of the author’s own imaginations.

Some stories given as examples in this book do not represent Factual or historical events but have been used fictitiously to bring out the literal aspects of discussions and also demonstrate the author’s intended thoughts and ideas exemplarily. Do not take them too seriously.

This book is stacked up with numerous mini chapters the author refers to as Bulletin. Each bulletin stands for each idea or topic of discussion.

You will also find some non-English words, the author has used them only for the sake of enhancing description. They are not a result of typo.

Contents

Bulletin 1: A Camera in Need

Bulletin 2: Idle Report

Bulletin 3: Miss Anonymity

Bulletin 4: Bold Tommy

Bulletin 5: Out and About

Bulletin 6: Relay Race

Bulletin 7: Matters of Ethical Concerns

Bulletin 8: Media Activism

Bulletin 9: The Blame Game

Bulletin 10: Hostile Perceptions

Bulletin 11: Misled

Bulletin 12: Honeycomb

Bulletin 13: Moderate Fame

Bulletin 14: Troublemaker

Bulletin 15: Intrusive Behavior

Bulletin 16: Romanus Suspicius

Bulletin 17: Fear Factor

Bulletin 18: Chasing the Weather

Bulletin 19: double sided

Bulletin 20: Master Plan

Bulletin 21: Sudden Spread

Bulletin 22: When the media fell in love with Scandals

Bulletin 23: the accountability bill

Bulletin 24: Corporate witnessing

Bulletin 25: media scavenger

Bulletin 26: double blackmail

Bulletin 27: the buster is busted

Bulletin 28: a war of veils and curtains

Bulletin 29: media power soliloquy

Bulletin 30: smart jurists

Bulletin 31: Judge Expose

Bulletin 32: the language that ye speak

Bulletin 33: the media pinches

Bulletin 34: what news do you bring?

Bulletin 35: park business

Bulletin 36: security stripped

Bulletin 37: painful interrogations

Bulletin 38: the media business changes people

Bulletin 39: media goggles

Bulletin 40: Very Important News

Bulletin 41: Will Bad News ever end?

Bulletin 42: The Controller in my Hands

Bulletin 43: Mutual Benefit (Symbiosis)

Final Clause

Footnotes

Bulletin 1:  A Camera in Need

Only after something bad happens that the people rush to call the media to record the events. People say, I think I heard an explosion somewhere behind me, please call the media to tell us what’s going on. Is it not the responsibility of the media to take note of everything happening around us? What about the disturbing images & films of a recent road carnage? Oh Yeah! Let them capture that too of course, when people get into trouble and they need help, they cry out to the media saying, please show the world what we are going through, so that we might get some help from the entire public, however, the one place people don’t want media presence is in their comfort zones, I don’t want Cameras anywhere near my private retreat on the mountains, says the congressman, nor anywhere near my private longue, or anywhere near my personal park. I rebuke all spying behaviour,’’ he exclaims. It appears to be some kind of poetic justice that they are placed at the mercy of the same media they had used against their rival politicians a short while ago.

Bulletin 2: Idle Report.

There was once a beautiful wedding ceremony taking place at a marvellous mansion in the countryside. During the dining time, Miss Lorna(the bride’s mother) was walking down the corridor with a tray full of hibiscus juice, she accidentally hits something with her foot which causes her to trip over & fall, she unfortunately smashes the tray with its entire contents onto the groom and his bride at the table, their beautiful white linen garments were badly stained, which became red as blood. Coincidentally a group of mindless folks happened to be just