This blog site is designed to feature articles, essays, columns and musings that concern the intersection of Christianity and the calling of journalism. To that end, I will archive what I believe are significant and important writings on this intersection. Additionally, I will add my own World Journalism Institute lectures and columns from the WJI newsletter, The Times Observer. Finally, from time to time, I will have my own musings on media events as they rise to the level of my interest.
June 27, 2008 at 9:54 pm |
I’m an award-winning South Asian journalist, currently based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA. I’m interested in sharing my experiences and talk at the meeting of the World Journalism Institute, focusing on STATE OF MEDIA IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, WITH A SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVE.
As you are aware that almost all the countries in South Asia — India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka — have unique political situation. Except for India, media in all these countries is in pitible situation. It’s literally a danger zone for journalist.
I grew up and got basic education in Nepal, went to study journalism in Pakistan and Japan, and been into the profession of journalism for over 2 decades, mostly in Nepal and the United States. If you’re interested in knowing more about me please Google my name, you’ll definitely find some of my works. Thank you very much,
Ravi Adhikari
PO Box 353
Belmont, CA 94002
Tel: (650) 245-0806
April 10, 2009 at 9:54 pm |
You have to be kidding me, you’re a good journalism program because of some old white dude that nobody has heard about? Go to any real journalism school (UNC, Missouri, Columbia, Northwestern) and you’ll learn that journalism is a secular medium, bring that religious crap in the newsroom and your editor is going to fire you on the spot. It’s called being biased!
Jesus isn’t going to help you explain complex world issues better. Jesus isn’t going to help you explain why Pakistan has conceded power to Muslim fundamentalists. Jesus certainly isn’t going to help you explain Israeli politics and why Lieberman’s party is gaining popularity.
April 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm |
Fantastic. I had no idea that the original presumption of the white invaders that all the people living on all the lands they desired to occupy for themselves, is still so alive.
So, if you can just kill all of us, non-Christians, you’d be so much better off, right? And your God provides all the necessary means and philosophy for that as shown by the Nazi killing right under the cross.
It is not astounding, just revolting.
April 14, 2009 at 4:29 pm |
Il,
I have no idea what you are referring to on my web site. Please explain.
April 14, 2009 at 5:39 pm |
Let me see if I can take your comments ad seriatim:
*I don’t know whom you are derisively referring to as “some old white dude.” In any case, you can check out our web page and see that we have many teachers and speakers in our program.
*Again, your derision about WJI program misses the point that we have always presented outselves as a short, intensive program which is an add-on to the training one receives in more extensive programs. There are prestigious J-schools (you mention some) and we do not seek to compete with or replace them.
*I dispute your contention that journalism is any more secular than any other vocational calling. To argue that only secularists can be journalists is religious bigotry. It is also epistemologically naive (eg, Polanyi, Merleau-Ponty, Toulmin, Wittenberg, Plantinga, Wolterstorff, et al, even Walter Lippmann).
*I agree with you that Jesus did not speak to specific political and economic issues confronting us today. But I would disagree that Jesus did not gave timeless and universal principles for justice, compassion. love, mercy, and equity. While it doesn’t always manifested, the followers of Jesus have an obligation to him to understand and apply his teaching in today’s world. So I would argue that Jesus can help explain and ameliorate the global issues we face.
“Real Journalist” with the New York Times email address, I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my web postings.
April 17, 2009 at 7:36 pm |
Moderating comments, that’s very first amendment-like.
April 21, 2009 at 5:58 pm |
Mr. Case, your critics above miss the point that this isn’t for them. The whole media industry is for them. Atheists, Agnostics and Antagonists have long ruled the media. This is for the rest of us, we lonely believers in the media who are forced to doubt our minority worldview constantly and who fear reprisals from the Angry Atheist who typically runs the newsroom. Keep up your good work. I know this is not a Right Wing conspiracy or I wouldn’t support you. You’re not telling us what to write; you’re giving us support and a community of peers in an otherwise completely hostile environment. You’re also encouraging the media-skeptics among believers to join rather than boycott the media. Effective change comes from within. (And you might consider disconnecting the comments option from your “About” page, since it will only invite the haters to rant on forever, spewing all the things they wish they’d said to their old pastor years ago.)
April 24, 2009 at 11:17 am |
I can tell that this is not the first time at all that you mention the topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?