Development Journalism

Although development journalism definitely promotes national media and highlights humanitarian issues I don't necessarily agree with development journalism. I think that the media should already be promoting these issues and focussing on creating a national identity of their own. If the media is not doing these things already then we have a different problem on our hands.

Although I think development journalism is a good means of counter balancing the thrust towards electronic colonialism I think that there is another means of promoting good values and helping traditional societies become democracies.

In essence the government needs to concentrate on their own issues and the media needs to do the same. If the media is not allowed to analyze or exercise their right as a watch dog due to governmental control then the media looses its purpose because more often then not a conflict of interest would prevent journalists from reporting on pertinent issues and this is unacceptable!