Today, I arrived home from office, I took a bath and relaxed
in front of my house. I was teasing my nephew who was playing football. Beside me,
my little friend was reading Timor Post News paper dated 13-09-12. I whispered to myself "I did
not read the newspaper today". Then I asked him to hand me the newspaper he was reading. I was interested after glancing at a headline about government’s first presentation of
a-five-year development program in the parliament office in Dili.
As usually, before reading the news in detail, I flip over to every page
to make a priority reading. The headline news is always interesting to me before
moving to open the following pages. As I moved through each page, I recognized the copycat Indonesian news, which is considered as international news. They usually copy news from Kompas, Yahoo, etc. Timor Post lacks of local news content, and thus it needs to take do so. However, the problem is that they did not go proper editing before publishing it.
I recognized this kind of error so many times already. But I feel like my feeling of disappointment has come to peaked, and I need to release it. For example, when I opened the page where International news is, in the first column
of the page appeared a news titled “Menteri Jepang Gantung Diri Sebelum Tabloid
Beberkan Perselinkuhanya”. This news is about a Minister in Japan committed suicide because his love affair was uncovered by the media.
A little of my reaction is that the public in Timor-Leste could learn about how leaders should be embarrashed as such in Japan if they ever commit such an act. I am saying this because in Timor-Leste, in reverse, if a leader is
allegedly involved in a corruption/ doing polygamy, but they still proud of it,
and even their existence is much more stronger because of overwhelming support
come from their fellow political party cronies.
Back to the unprofessional thing, Timor Post is not doing detail editing of its news. The redactor copied internet news without
any crosscheck and proper editing beforehand. The proof is that messy words/strange
words have been included in this part unintentionally. I read through first -
fourth paragraphs were about the topic whereas the rest is about a very
different topic. Sorry to mention that the topic of Menteri Jepang Gantung Diri
Sebelum Tabloid Beberkan Perselinkuhanya is incorporated with strange topic
which is “Tips how to grow the Penis with tea, warm up the penis and etc. What
a shame!.
Hope Timor-Post notice such errors and be willing to do things better ahead.
**Hope this gives you an inspiration
