I agree.
I fear that our young folks have no concept of what that means. Whilst teaching young people to be results driven is a good thing, we have moved away from creating thinkers-particularly in Colleges and Universities. I may yet proffer a solution, but few people want to think, nevermind listen.

I don’t think good journalism is necessarily foreign anymore. Too often I see images of a western reporter standing in front of some cityscape essentially reciting Wikipedia. Sometimes I think you could get more information from a local trishaw driver. For all the coverage, you rarely see locals speaking for themselves, and we actually can.

Our challenge, in my view, is to resist becoming crusaders to the point where we lose sight of the first principles and primary responsibilities. It’s a sad truth that many use the media outlets and platforms to peddle hatred, suspicion, xenophobia and other sentiments that fuel and sustain conflicts. But the reaction to such extremism should be show and discuss matters as is – warts and all – rather than become dove-bearing, see-no-evil ‘peace journalists’. This is why I have always found the populist brand of peace journalism naive, ineffective and irrelevant.

But let’s see what others think!