Luka Princic on Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:04:06 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> nato summit 2002 independent report |
dear *, some students of journalism at brno (cz) were very critical about media coverage and information that reached general public about and during World Bank and International Monetary Fund summit in Prague in year 2000. at the occasion of the forthcoming nato summit in the same city (21-22 nov/02), they felt criticism is not enough. a case of direct action and imho totally necessary socio-political engagement of young and all. a little dynamic system for the page was just finished, so quick report and multimedia can be uploaded and inserted as quickly as possible. the press release follows below. disseminate freely and widely. luka _ :: open mind, open source, open future :: pgp key id: 0x28F1A432 (http://pgp.letusplay.net) 8E 52 EB F8 D1 43 3C 8B 43 53 DA 79 96 EE 0C D0 28 F1 A4 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://skylined.org/nsir/ Press Release: Parallel coverage of NATO summit November 21 - 22 in Prague We present a plan of parallel "shadow" news coverage of NATO summit called NSIR (NATO Summit Independent Report). It emerged with the purpose of creating balanced and unbiased news from the summit itself, as well as related events like marches etc.. The crew is formed mainly by the students of journalism on the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University (FSS MU), Brno. Majority of us have some experience from the marches held during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund summit in Prague, 2000. We carefully observed news coverage that time and we found out several discrepancies with today mass-media theory and some journalistic principles (e.g. mixing different raid groups, emotionality, undesirable fusion of different journalistic genres).. The results of the negotiations were pushed aside by current marches, which were given excessive attention. Despite this courtesy, real intentions and goals of the rioters were not presented, the news covered only the frequency and common knowledge about the marches. Presuming the media are co-creators of mass reality and so they have some responsibility, it is quite dangerous to simplify extensively and marginalize important facts. Bare criticism is insufficient, and so NSIR project was created. Our goal is to point out the necessity of careful and elaborate perception of the media, because not everything that is printed must be necessarily true. We admit that it is impossible to achieve totally neutral and balanced reports, as we too have an opinion. But we will attempt to reach these values as close as we are able to. Project Realization The summit is held on Thursday, 21st November and Friday, 22nd November, but the NSIR reporters will be monitoring the situation for the whole week (17th November to 24th November). Two students gained the Congress Centre entry permission (Ivana Okleą»ková, studying international relations, and Jaroslav Petřík, studying political science, both studying journalism simultaneously). More than twenty other people form the team, which will cover the summit itself as well as the riots (including the characteristics of various raid groups), police or army actions and other related events. The outcome of NSIR project is a web page (http://skylined.org/nsir/), which will be continuosly updated with text, photographs, audio-video records and everyday summaries. Various journalistic genres will be represented (e.g. interviews with celebrities of all the participating parties), the project will be closed by a general overview. NSIR project is backed up by the Department of journalism and mass-media studies, FSS MU, which provided a part of necessary technology. "Department supports this iniciative and believes that the result of monitoring will correspond to the criteria of neutral journalism," said the head of Department, doc. Jiří Pavelka, CSc. We also negotiate the cooperation with students of Charles University, Czech and the Czech Technical University in Prague. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net