What about “World News Day”? The website says (World News Day, worldnewsday.org):
World News Day is a global initiative to draw public
attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy news and
information that serves citizens and democracy. World News Day takes place
annually on September 28.
It’s 26 September
2024 as I write this, that is, 9 days after my birthday, 17 Sept. As a writer,
I did not always think like this:
World News Day demands: “Choose Truth.” My immediate
reaction is this: “Why not Choose Kindness?!” Kindness will never get anybody
into trouble!
World News Day is
presented by the World Editors Forum,
the Canadian Journalism Foundation
and Daily Maverick’s Project Kontinuum.
Sorry. I have no problem with “World News Day” but I do have a problem with the
slogan, “Choose Truth.”
“Choose Truth” – That
speaks of Truth Journalism, the
kind that won PH Rappler’s CEO Maria Ressa the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. Sorry, not my kind of peace
prize.
Now then, you can
say that Frank A Hilario is not going after the Nobel; rather, the prize he is
after is the Novel THINK Prize –
after his THiNK! Journalism creed.
“THiNK!
Journalism” is very much unlike Maria Ressa’s or anyone else’s Truth Journalism
– the latter starts and stops at “Truth”!
You see: Truth
Journalism cannot even pass the Rotary
4-Way Test:
1.
Is it the truth?
2.
Is it fair to all concerned?
3.
Will it build goodwill and better
friendships?
4.
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
My kind of
journalism that I call ‘THiNK! Journalism” goes like this:
True? If True, is it
Helpful? If Helpful, is it
Inspiring? If Inspiring, is it
Necessary? If necessary, is it
Kind? THINK!
(bottom image from my
collection)
To follow the World News Day’s mantra “Choose
Truth” is to avoid being Helpful as well as being Inspiring and being Necessary
and being Kind all at the same time! Not my kind of journalism.
Going on beyond today, I am pursuing Regenerative Agriculture (RA), that which is both Mother Nature-friendly and farmer-friendly.
I can say RA is THINKing Agriculture:
True:
RA requires minimum total costs, with no expensive chemical fertilizers and chemical
pesticides.
Helpful: RA requires no external inputs, only farmer crops, natural materials
& methods.
Inspiring: RA encourages natural processes to proceed and produce healthy
harvests of healthy foods.
Necessary: RA follows the laws of Mother Nature, all of them.
Kind: RA repays the farmer with maximum returns!
I hereby rename “Regenerative Agriculture” as
“THiNK Agriculture” (TA) with these TA 13 practices:
(1) Cover Cropping, (2) Crop Rotation, (3)
Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry), (4) Green Manuring, (5) Intercropping,
(6) Multiple Cropping, (7) No-Till Farming, (8) Organic Fertilization, (9)
Ratooning, (10) Rotational Grazing, (11) “Three Sisters” Planting, (12) Trap
Cropping, (13) Trash Mulching.
THiNK!@517
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