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Who is a successful journalist?

That rare blessing

We talked about the profession of journalism, its meaning, its development, its types, its connection to the government and public opinion, and we talked about its unions and organizations. All we have to do now is talk about the person who works in it and is affiliated with it, so he is called a journalist. We have previously mentioned that this title has great status and special privilege among other bodies. We can hardly find a correct definition for it. There are those who say that he is “the one who adapts his idea easily, so that it goes directly to the hearts of the readers, caressing their feelings, and then after a short or long time knocks on the doors of their minds when they find them open or half-open.” There he says that he is an “educated person with a distinguished appearance and an energetic personality who has the means of extracting information and images from those who possess them.” In fact, they differed in defining its meaning, just as they differed in defining the meaning of journalism. Whatever the case, we prefer to apply the term journalist to every newspaper worker, whether he is an editor, informant, or editor-in-chief, as long as he has officially belonged to the service of Her Majesty and has won the honorable title from her office, after he has fulfilled the conditions of service and the articles and conditions of the Journalists Syndicate Constitution have been applied to him. We pointed it out.

Journalist's message

Journalists, as Rickham Stead said, “are men and women with minds and faculties of their own. They have a zeal to spread colorful knowledge. They are determined to break into the newspaper mill, seeking an outlet through which they can look at the public and tell it what they believe it has a right to know. They are idealists.” They are hard-hearted, their working conditions are often difficult and their duty never ends. They are ready to bear everything and sacrifice everything in order to carry out this duty. When the Paris police director imported a squad of dogs from America to rescue those drowning in the Seine River, the editor of a French newspaper saw the futility of this measure. In his article, he suggested appointing male observers in centers on the river’s shores. When the police chief did not listen to his proposal, he went on a rainy, snowy October night and threw himself into the river. Not a single dog among them moved to save him, but merely barked. The journalist survived thanks to a swimmer who was waiting on the beach during the experiment. In view of this evidence, the police director was forced to take the journalist’s suggestion and disband the dog squad.

What a mistake it is to compare a journalist to a candle burning to light the way for people. He has an educated mind, a firm belief, and an eloquent pen. He devotes himself and his talents to benefiting his nation and serving his country, and he is not the one who creates partisan articles, exploits national rivalries, and denounces people's honor. Rather, he is the one who sacrifices life and money for the sake of his good principles. His concern, as the reformer of the nation, is to instill virtues, examine facts, verify narratives, and disseminate mature ideas, so as not to lose people’s trust in him. He is interested in being far from partisanship and whims, criticizing for the public good, defending out of conscience, and combating all the evils and evils that threaten the entity of society. The journalist is the one who we see as strong in the face of the shocks that stand in his way at work. Rather, with his ability, insight, and devotion to his duty, he controls the hardest hearts and the most delicate positions, and with his skill he turns the course of high politics towards the highest goal to which his ambition aspires. expressing opinions,

He is a sociable person to the hearts, inflames the feelings, and keeps up with his brothers with the news of the world and the affairs of life. He has a strong connection with the group, and for this reason he is the one who criticizes and criticizes. He is always exposed to the kisses of supporters and the slaps of the attackers and is always threatened with punishment. The journalist’s profession is difficult and he must face it with competence, tact and steadfastness. He must be devoted to his work and love it. If he performs his duty and satisfies his conscience, he will have a decent position and great status among all bodies and societies, and the profession of journalism will be the ladder to his attainment of glory. Lloyd George, Aristide Bryan, Karl Marx, Saad Zaghloul, Mustafa Kamel, and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani were nothing but journalists.