March 28, 2024

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WHY ARE SPIES IN THE NEWSROOM?

By: Bigabo Patrick

It sounds a boring alarm I have consistently made… but it seems to make sense to most of you because it is now packaged differently and delivered by a western outlet. Just like we only seem to consume and accept western THINGS and undermining our own outlook to things.


The Holders of Political Power have simply and recently (since 2000) learnt that SOCIAL POWER holders (media, individual celebrities, self-made business persons) are a large threat to them.


WHY and WHERE Is the Mistake?


Political Power holders fronted the private sector initiative but didn’t know it would result into a new pole of power called social Power.


Political Power holders always viewed communication tools as only beneficial to them in advancing and propagating their ideas and policies to extend their influence on the people they lead. 


They {Political power holders} have for a long time have been drunk of this power and thought by creating private sector, they would delegate running of the economy on their behalf as they continue swimming on total power.


Private sector has resulted into the growth of powerful individuals with money (Financial Power) but this new sect has also overtime realized that they are servants of holders of Political power and began struggling to capture political power to gain control of market to ensure survival of their business empires.

A good example is TRUMP of the US.


The rise of Trump is solely due to Policies of Democrats and not Republicans even though Trump claims to serve under the Republicans.
As the world gears for a transition into the 4th industrial revolution; [Information, content and data] is the new currency and thus the Newsroom is going to be more important- Holders of Political Power will or are switching to merge or seduce, or buyout content engineers (the oxygen for social Power) to keep control of society.


The Holders of Political Power are threatened by Holders of social Power under the 4th industrial revolution. The holders of financial Power have been defeated through the advent of electronic finance.


The only difficult kind of Power hard to change from its state to another is SOCIAL POWER. For example how would government change news of an event that has been seen with eyes? For example how would you change an appealing song? 


The new society leaders are going to be Journalists because they are the only savior of society that has endured centuries of reign of Political Power holders.


Political power holders will only destroy the factory (media house) but will not destroy the Journalist. Julian Assange is an attempt by the Political Power Holders to frame Social Power and also an attempt to destroy Journalism.


Political power holders across the world’s nation states continue to deploy their agents in newsrooms to learn exactly how media or Journalists conduct their trade in influencing other Powers. The Political Power holders and financial power holders seem wondering on the Price of a Journalist.


It is easy to buy a businessman and for that matter a media Investor (with political leaning interests) but it seems very complex to determine the cost of a Journalist.


The nation state governments have tried against newsrooms in the past 20 years but have failed. Leakages have been tried with the aim of changing the definitions of Journalism with intention to infiltrate the profession.

The advent of social media is a good example of this attempt to dilute journalism and package it as anyone capable of spreading information.
Technology companies are being encouraged and given a lot of money to develop equipment and tools that can make dissemination of information quicker but we all know, that a story researched and written or produced by a Journalist is totally different from volumes of information on social media.


It is very evident that in every whatsapp groups, Facebook pages and twitter, subscribers are very poor at generating content of their own but only keep sharing newsroom content story links – a clear indication of failure by Political Power holders in hijacking the newsroom or rendering it useless.


A lot of social media information has failed to make it to interests of Political Power holders and gained a Name FAKE NEWS!!!


Religion has been destroyed, family destroyed, culture destroyed but belief in newsroom has remained intact for many many years.

States are launching attacks against other states through established media and doing things like emulating Journalists eg writing a story with 5Ws+ H, having byline and edited and headlined…. But still this has gained a negative name PROPAGANDA. 


Major Militaries are considering drafting a new Force to add onto Airforce, Infantry, Marine- This new Force hasn’t found a name but it is emerging like Data force, Cyber Force, etc but its functionings are entirely copycatting Newsroom and globally Holders of Political Power are conducting several conferences, summits to validate this new force as necessary for alleged modern security challenges like those of Julianne Assange allegedly brought to the world.


Universities are going to introduce new courses in this line such as Cyber security science, Information security, content engineering and whatever the naming.—this all is a wider attempt to hijack newsroom. 

The governments are left with no other option but to open up negotiations with Journalists and we are expected to see the rise of Hardcopy Print, more adverts to media and a more safe society being fed with factual information and therefore the Death of Social Media.

About the Author:

Patrick Bigabo is a freelance writer and social commentator based in Kigali

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