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Date Posted: 21:52:39 03/06/02 Wed
Not too sure u guys have any problem ... but I submit my clipping to Hardie for review and this is what he comment.
"Hi Kirk,
This is a very good review. You cover the author's coverage well.
You allude to other interest groups. Try and avoid statements like
"it's a proven fact", unless you can prove it. Such
statements tend to appeal to the emotions, but they don't establish
anything.
I will probably start to photcopy sections of the book for class,
You are evaluating research reports on how well they are
accomplishing their job as research. examine the credililty of the
writer, the claims they are making, the methodolgies used, the
aguments and the conclusions.
Hope this helps
Regards
Hardie"
I hope to share with you all if u have difficultic or no idea how to write the clipping report
here mine sample ...
Video voyeurism and the state of the heart
In 3rd of January this year, local free-to-air Mandarin TV station, Channel 8 titillated Singaporean with former Taipei city councilor Ms Chu Mei Feng’s interview plus a video footage containing Ms Chu sexual intimacy with her lover. Shortly after, on 17 February 2002, a local senior correspondent of the Straits Times, Andy Ho, published his personal view regarding this broadcast program on the Sunday Times and the key issue was local media titillating the audience with Ms Chu saga a necessary. This is the first edition on this subject matter “Video voyeurism and the state of the heart” by a local editor in Singapore this year and this information given was current. The news article was published by well-known publisher, the Straits Times who is one of the region's oldest and most widely read English-language daily newspapers in Singapore.
In this news article, the publication was primarily addressed to local broadcast media station, Channel 8 and the Singaporean while other discourse communities such as news distribution retailers, electronic retailers, media conglomerates, voyeurism fetish video distributors as well as Internet users as general audience. The news article appeared to be well researched, as the information coverage was extensive, ranging from Ms Chu’s sex scandal to the local attitude of Singaporean towards titillating materials to local broadcast journalism and finally the development of amazing new technologies that enabled video voyeurism. Most of the information is secondary sources and Andy mainly voiced his personal views based on these sources.
According to Andy, he saw the local media are increasing loosening the moral value in the content, which began and grew out of passive spectatorship, a requirement by corporate media in pandering the viewer appetites. It is a normal sign since it has already defined the popular worldwide. To support his belief, he quoted us two “Reality Show”, Survivor and Temptation Island. Both reality shows were all about ”trying someone, reducing them to what we think is their moral essence”. Andy believed much of the video voyeurism fell in these shows and our lust could be catered through looking luridly at other’s life in these shows.
Which leads Andy to his next belief that some broadcast journalists were willingly to gather any news, repackage the way viewers want to be and then broadcast as a matter of legitimate public interest even though such news may be immature, corrupted or x-rated. Among its baleful effects, Andy says, is the growing interest of “legitimate public interest”, which blurred the boundaries between what is unoriginal news and what is real news. Andy believed “news has become a voyeuristic commodity” and at such “there is really no free marketplace of ideas.” Instead of serving the public life, a handful of media conglomerates began to manipulated the media industry according to each individual interests by deploying such mentality “whatever sell best is good”, which is why video voyeurism is legitimate.
In addition, Andy Ho also point out the development of amazing new technologies such as cheap, mobile, wireless, small camcorders, enabled more prurient to craft their artworks inexpensively and effortlessly. Such equipment’s ability is a concern to all since it is able to captured footage or images without us notice we are being watched. Moreover, with the Internet accessible to all form of insanity site, prurient could effortlessly delivered the images or video into particular form of Internet pornographic for profits.
In his last words, Andy maintained the needs of legislation to protect us from such camera and the present law keeping up with technology. However, he pointed out a good point that even if our external behavior is controlled by an external force such as laws, there is not way we can change our internal attitude or heart condition if the bondages such as lust of power over others, the essence of voyeurism and pornography or lust for money remains the stronghold within our life. To Andy, only radical change of heart will break these bondages.
I strongly agreed with his view about radical change of heart, especially when we do a moral inventory search within our heart. Only then we gradually tune our outward behavior based on our inward conviction. This is a proven fact! Our attitude determines our altitude. Unless there is a strong conviction from our heart, no matter what kind of external forces, be it the laws or pressures, these effects will not swift away the basic core value system, whether morally or immorally.
In conclusion, the whole content in this articles truly reflect how Andy feel toward local media and video voyeurism. Not only he raised and challenged the issue, he also clearly gave us examples and solution to which he was referring. Initially, I have some difficulties in reading the content, as the choice of word was in advance level, in my own opinion. However, the publication organization was logically display. Furthermore, in my opinion, I felt he was not bias towards his own professionalism. In fact, he was courageous to address this issue publicly without disputes between broadcast journalism and local media TV station. This could speak of his credibility and why the Straits Times hired him!
Andy Ho, “Video voyeurism and the state of the heart”, The Straits Times, 17 February 2002
Clay Calvert, “VOYEUR NATION: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture”, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado
Jack Lechner, “CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF OF YOU”, Crown Publishers New York
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