کیف ننهض بصحافتنا .. كتاب معلم الصحافة والإنشاء

How do we advance our journalism?

The resolute elimination of these sabotaging factors that we have been exposed to, which obstruct the progress of some of our newspapers in the procession of our modern national renaissance, and addressing this weakness that has led the vast majority of readers to turn away from them and flock to other foreign newspapers requires in every Arab country the cooperation of the government, the union, and the owners of the newspapers. Newspapers and public opinion in this way.

And when the (good) government keeps only the best newspapers, while extending a helping hand to them in times of distress, so that it does not extend its hand to dishonest sources, and refrains from giving the right to publish except to those who are competent in culture and morals, and makes its oversight and judiciary an obstacle to publishing what misleads the people and spreads the word. Temptations, moral decay, and fears in the souls of its members, and when it supports the Journalists Syndicate and supervises its organization and implementation of its laws, then appreciating these for the tasks assigned to it and accepting those who meet the conditions for holding the title alone, and expelling any member who violates the honor of the profession or tries to exploit it to gain money illegally. When newspaper owners realize that, by choosing this profession, they have established themselves as moral leaders for this people, they must watch over their comfort and interest, sacrifice everything before His glory and for His happiness, and believe with complete faith that they are His and that they are theirs, and that they must understand Him, love Him, and guide Him. All good is the time when they are keen to organize the administrative and editorial work of their newspaper, and distance it from the tampering of the pens of half-educated people, and work to diversify its materials and perfect its engineering, printing, and images. And when public opinion realizes the value of the honorable newspaper, supports it and encourages it in various ways of encouragement, and refrains from reading other deceptive newspapers that hide their deceptive face with a mask of sincerity and patriotism and various means of seduction and then adorn them in the face of the temptation of the powerful, regardless of their status and conscience. That happy time, which we await with great longing, is the time in which we have the right to be proud and proud of a strong, free press, which expresses the renaissance of the Arab countries and their demands, and takes the hand of the Arab people to the shore of peace and light, and becomes for them ambassadors and spokespeople inside the country and outside the borders. “Every nation has the press it deserves,” says Wickham Stead.