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An article to be read by all writers and those working as journalists. Interesting to not that how many people are following the process to be followed and how many media companies are telling their journalists to stand by their words. It is the age of the paid media and that is what creates people of breaks them. This media also has the power to make or break governments. Media which is supposed to be the fourth estate. Has turned out to be a money making industry. It is sad but it is true. There are very few news papers which follow these canons strictly. Thanks for the share.
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Hi Krishna,
Thank you so much for your reply. Yes you are right that there are “paid media” practitioners nowadays. Those journalists or media practitioners that consider only their selfish ends and see journalism as a means or vehicle for personal enrichment of aggrandizement prostitutes journalism as a profession and callings.
These type of media practitioners or journalists are a big shame to their profession and to their comrades in the profession.
We have a term in the Philippines for these shameless media practitioners or journalists and such practice. We called them “envelopemental
journalism”. Why? Simply because these hack writers or paid writers received their money from their patrons inside an envelope—meaning the money is contained inside an envelope given to a journalist or media practitioner, that’s why the term “envelopemental journalism”.
It is journalism for money and nothing else, to the disadvantaged and detriment of the public welfare. Such brand of journalism if ever we can call it journalism has no place in our society and must be immediately condemn and expose at once.
We can only hope and pray that the present and next generation of journalist will be true to their profession and callings.
Otherwise, journalism for sure will lose the very reason for its existence.
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n That is true: Justice delayed is justice denied. This happens if judges and lawyers are conspiring.
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Hi cely,
Thank you so much for your reply. It will be a very sad day indeed if there will come a time that there will be connivance between the judges and lawyers in deliberately delaying the speedy disposition of criminal cases.
That situation is not good for the person accused of any crimes especially “heinous crimes” where you cannot post any bail whatsoever.
The hard thing is that while the case is on-going the accused is languishing in jail for a long period of time only to be finally acquitted and release by the Supreme Court if ever that the case reached the court of last resort.
We know that the jail condition in our country is far from being ideal. Almost all jails are crowded and too full of prisoners. The food being fed to the prisoners are not that good either.
We cannot understand why it took so long before any given criminal case, say for example drug cases like sale of “shabu” could be disposed and terminated by the court.
Almost 60%-70% of the criminal cases pending trial in the Philippines are mostly drug cases which continue to clog every court docket.
I think there is a need for strict monitoring and regular inventory of all drug cases from all court so that the right to speedy trial of every accused will be a living reality.
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That’s a sad state of the justice system in our country. The reason why many fear that the imposition of death penalty could not truly solve the problem of illegal drugs; what if the poor man who could not defend himself in court was sentenced to die, yet he was innocent of the charge against him?
It would be unfair, and like what you posted here, it was a case of injustice for that accused who languished in jail for so long in spite of being innocent!
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Hi acelawrites,
Thanks again for your comment. Yes you are right—there’s always the great danger that innocent people wrongly accused of crime may die if and when the death penalty will be revive or re-impose in our country.
It is common knowledge that those who are being charged for the crime or offense of Illegal Drugs whether for possession or sale are always those who comes from the poor sector of our society.
The same is true for those being convicted for the sale of drugs—those who comes from the poor sector of our society or almost always on the poverty level.The present campaign of the Duterte Administration against drugs or its “war on drugs” and the possible revival or re-imposition of the capital punishment or death penalty are two interconnected things.
On the level of principle yes we need to fight the drug menace in the Philippine society due to its pernicious effect which is quite obvious and is self-explanatory. However, such campaign against drugs much always be done in accordance and within the limitation provided for by law.
As they say, there’s always a thin blue line between law enforcement and taking the law into one’s hand i.e. EJK or the rise of vigilantism.
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Whosoever was there as a real parent really had an unfortunate time in this whole incident. It is very wrong on the part of some to create hatred in the minds of the child for their parents to settle personal scores. Parents too should be aware that such things may happen and have to be in regular touch with the kids and see that they are not lost due to these kind of activities by other relatives. If the parents share a strong relationship with the children emotionally, physically and are there around for them when they need them. Such events will never take place. But in this case the relationship is lost forever. Thanks for the share.
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It happens to many children who are used by another relative against their parents. It is very tragic.
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As long as you give attribution to the source, there is nothing wrong with it.
I usually do that also, citing some date or statistics but I state the source or cite the persons who said it. It is not plagiarism, like what you said in your post; it is merely giving credit where credit is due. It is not owning what other people had said,or what other people had studied or researched.
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The problem of A.I., if not properly tweaked is that it can not tell the difference between a quote and plagairism.
Hence if I write; President Barack Obama said, when running for President of the United States, “Yes We Can,” I would be flagged for plagiarism by an A.I. checker
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Informative article to any newcomer or even someone who has been around for a few months. It is better to write fictional work or details which cover some subject which only we know and no one else would know. But it impedes the number of choices which are available to a writer. I saw your article of Rio Olympics and also the comments as to what was written. I found the article based on facts.
Hence I appreciated the article. That is how an article should be if it is a subject like that if it uses data from source hence forth I will make it a point to quote the source so that my article will not be called plagiarized by the checker. For someone new this article is informative provided they read and know what happens when facts are given. I am thinking as to tackle this issue. One I wrote an article in the forum. Two I am responding to this article by you. I am checking what other options are there for writers safety. Thanks for the share.
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If I was taking the information from the NY Times, I would have admitted it, but I took the information from three different sources, and combined them. I put it in my own words, but the problem is that I could not put how much money, how long, when, and what in different words. A stadium was built in the Amazon which was a waste of money. I could not change the place, or the fact it was neglected.
A wiser and more astute Admin would appreciate I couldn’t change those facts or put them into my own words without destroying the substance. If I had written ‘a lot of money’ instead of 12 Billion, then the plag. detector would have passed. But the article would be worthless.
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