Have you find it hard to really understand how your sport is reported by journalism?.. oh well remember that sport is not just up and down movement it is part of our life, it brings people together and has for instance cricket been appropriated to appeal to huge number of people it has become part of who we are, forms part of our identity, we nationalised sport, there is no sport for certain group of people. sport has become food for our souls, healing nations if you have been struggling to get platform to discuss the issues concerning your soprt and giving opinions on how it should be covered 'journ inside out' is without a doubt is your answer then.
In our day the roporters seems to be more interested in scandals happening in sport rather than the original sport, you can think about how many soccer newspapers are out there, megazines and even every prodcasting campany have a section put a side for the beutiful game is that not enough to inform you how important sport is to our miserable life in all the spheres of earth. You
get in your house, sit on the couch, and turn on your tv you will see floods of sports adverts by sportsmen, they can either be used to advertise clothes and even social issues they use these sportman to make profit and even use them to win great pool of uncommited number of audiences. Because these people are always seen everyday in our media, they are then percieved as trustworthy since familiarity confers. so is it not importent that our sport is covered with a great eal of circumspection?, by this i mean our sport should atleast be covered with greate deal of accuracy and dignity our sportsmen should be seen as heroes rather that media palookas.
Beeing a sport fanatic myself these are kinds of questions i ask myself everytime i touch a sport newspaper or gaze at sports tv broadcasts. Hoever it is not enough to sit down and complain 'jour inside out' group stood up and created this blog that aim to remove this anxiety so that we could together with our dear audiences enjoy a free platform to discuss these issues and eventually come up with a solution remember what troubled waters authour said "dont ask what your nation can do for you instead ask what you can do for your nation and this is what enathi anica siphamandla and sibongiseni are proving, put us to the challenge.
Everytime you logon to "journ inside out" then to the section reporting on sport you wont be asking the same questions you were asking before joining up to this blogg. here you will be coming up with issues that you.. you yourself have recognised and some you have not realised yet,with tips of how can perfect sport reporting can be achieved by journalists and media students. By visiting this site you will also develop a critical way of understanding our sport as we are living in a world where propagandas is major and a way of figthing rivals to gain power over people.
Remember that in south africa we boast of our diverse cultures, these diverse cultueres are evident in our sports as we are one of the countries with varieties of sports genres if not all, for instance we have wresttling, cricket,swimming,soccer,rugby,jupming etc and these sportsgenres are not only for fun but they bring a sense of nationality, our rainbow nation.
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