Last Wednesday, 28 November 2015, we attended a seminar about media literacy. The seminar was somehow basic for me.
The first speaker taught us how to make a good new report. I learned that the most important yet not observed question in making news is "So what?". Yes, everybody can make news nowadays. But the question is, so what? Why do we need to care? Does the news worth our attention? Sad to say that some news nowadays are not importan
t to us. Why do they air news about Ms. Pastillas and AlDub? Because it is what the people WANT to hear but we DON'T NEED to know about.
I liked the second speaker. She awaken me. From the people of Syria to the Lumad killings. ( I think that the military were not the who did those killings. If ever they committed it, probably it was for self defense. A lot of civilians can wear military uniform nowadays, and NPAs use those uniform. Military conduct proper protocol. I wish civilians would know who are the true men in uniform. It doesn't mean that when someone uses a military uniform he/she is a member of the AFP.) The problem of Syria were happening for a long time now but we don't even bother to tweet or post anything about them. But when the Paris was attacked, some of us even changed our profile pictures with the colors of their flag and sympathize with them. Did we do this for the Syrians? NO.
We must not make a status that will may use against us. We have indeed freedom of expression, but do we really need to let out our feelings through social medias? Do other people care? NO. You're just humiliating yourself. For me, it is a habit that IMMATURE people do.
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