For better newspapers

One teacher gave us a puzzle what would happen if the only film that remained was of Data on Star Trek? How would a historian interpret this information? What would they say? And how would society be portrayed? Imagine for one moment how historians will use what reporters write in newspapers. This led me to re-think journalism as reporters are today's historians because they record and report on daily events. How will our world be interpreted if all that is left in our daily newspaper????

Reporters and journalists are there to bring the news too often it is bad news, and only negative events get attention. Communities do not get coverage hence there are community newspapers and magazines. I would suggest a new branch of journalism would be interesting that is to bring a history of the city, when various communities came to live in a city, stories of unusual individuals who have contributed to society and made a difference in their own community or another community.

The press can be racist and this can cause a great deal of pain to one community, the solution is to give a fair and balanced view of a community, give the positive and also the negative that way one group does not become stigmatized or feel they are victims of hatred.

Inclusiveness in one way to make sure that everyone is welcome and part of society from historical perspective historians will be able to give a more balanced view of our own century and the contribution we made. It is to plant seeds now so that in the future we can be remember as we are and not as someone imagines us to be.

Here are some suggestions, the cost is a few minutes of your time an email or one stamp and you can make a difference.

1. Write to the newspapers and ask to get fair coverage
2. For radio and television write to producers to advertisers and ask to be inclusive.
3. For the written press you can write to the Editor in Chief or the owners
4. In Quebec you can write the Federation des Journalistes
5. Conseil de Presse
6. CRTC for radio and television
7. You can write to newspaper editors, journalists and columnists