Comments on: Media Missing the HIV/AIDS Story http://ipsterraviva.asia/2009/08/11/media-missing-the-hivaids-story/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Irwan Julianto http://ipsterraviva.asia/2009/08/11/media-missing-the-hivaids-story/#comment-6 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:17:30 +0000 http://ipsterraviva.asia/?p=165#comment-6 I appreciate Ms Corporal’s report on the session on media and AIDS that I chaired. Actually what happened to the media in the USA, Europe, and Australia –I call it as “media fatique”– has happened among media in South East Asia countries. Thailand press in 2004 has reported this phenomenon, while in a country like Indonesia it seems it occurs too these days. But there is a time lag, like the ripening epidemic itself Thailand is ahead 5-10 years from Indonesia.

Concerning on reporting AIDS epidemic with human face has been trained to hundred of journalists in Indonesia since 1994, which I called as “Compassionate journalism”. With the progress of ART, now it evolves to become “Journalism of hope”. Reporting statistics and sensational/scary stories about AIDS are past time — for more senior journalist and quality media, because it is the time for implementing “Journalism of Meaning” rather than “Journalism of Facts” (4 W) which often lack of Why + How.

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