The electronic media was yesterday awash with the story of
Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s indecent protest against Prof. Mahmood Mamdani at the Makerere
Institute of Social Research (MISR). No need for me to delve into details here
because the story is all over the place. I think the editors who allowed this
story through disregarded ethics. The journalists who cut and posted indecent
clips of Stella on social media disregarded professionalism. After undressing
before the cameras, Stella went on to utter vulgar words that, surely, would
make a sober journalist or editor question whether she was in the right state
of mind. We may be thinking she was acting funny when, in reality, Stella has a
mental illness. Let us be fair when we are executing our duty as journalists.
Otherwise, we would have no right to be called journalists in this era when
anyone can record and publish material by themselves. How different are we from
the rest?
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