When a reporter shouts protest in the position of a human being
In the last press conference of Ahony Blinken – US Secretary of State – two journalists named “Max Blumehal” and “Sam Hosseini” protested the policies of the United States towards Gaza. Blumehal accused Blinken of complicity in the “genocide” in Gaza, and Hosseini asked why Blinken was not tried at The Hague. These protests led to their viole expulsion from the hall by the security officers. From the poi of view of a communication professor, the incide is a protest of a journalist in a human position to their crimes, but at the same time, it could be an example and a challenge.
According to RCO News Agency, the expulsion and arrest of these two reporters happened when the US Secretary of State refused to answer their questions about the Gaza war. “Why isn’t he in The Hague now (for trial)?” a reporter asked Blinken. who was violely arrested by security officers! Another journalist considered Blinken to be an accomplice of the regime’s genocide in Gaza and committing the Holocaust, and he was also expelled from the hall by security officers.
This happened while the Biden governme is coming to an end and in a coury that claims to be a democracy, journalists are now treated in the worst possible way in a press conference in fro of all the cameras. According to Omid Ali Masoudi, professor of communication, this action can be examined from two perspectives.
raising questions or making accusations; The problem is this
In an ierview with Isna, Masoudi, a university professor, believes that the matter can be dealt with in two ways.
He said: At first glance, it should be said that the journalists have been invited to the News conference and should raise their questions. The reporter must ask questions and must always be demanding; Because it raises people’s questions, but you can see that when that reporter raises the question, it is accompanied by shouting and accusations; While we must follow the meeting conditions in our ierviews. If they were asking these issues in the form of questions, for example, “We have reports that you massacred 40,000 people. Or you destroyed 30,000 pois and…” was more professional.
Emphasizing that the reporter is the represeative of the people, Masoudi said: The reporter should ask his own questions. Our work does not proceed in the form of a slogan. We should raise any questions and objections we have from the people in a logical way and get answers. Those reporters could definitely have a challenging discussion. However, it should not be overlooked that they came to the meeting in an inappropriate manner and took these two reporters away, and this behavior was considered an insult to them.
Omid Ali Masoudi
These journalists should be commended
Masoudi looked at the protest of journalists at the Blinken conference in a differe way, and examined their position apart from the position of journalists and from a human poi of view and in the position of a human being and said: Another angle is that yes, they have committed a crime and the reporter is a human anyway; Here, as a human being, he raises a cry of protest and protests against someone whose hands are stained with the blood of many innoce people. Here, we don’t give him the role of a journalist anymore, but we look at him as a human being, and in my opinion, such a journalist should be appreciated. However, it would have been better if he asked the question in the form of a reporter and challenged the meeting.
In the end, this university professor stated: Anyway, a journalist is also human and sometimes he has to bear a lot of pressure. Journalist work is one of the hard and harmful jobs; Therefore, we give the right to the reporter, but in such meetings, it is better to be a restrained and demanding reporter.
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