My attention was drawn by a fellow blogger to this post at Islamabad Metroblogging by A for [pine]Apple and I felt disgusted with the word sonofabitch. Here is my immediate reaction without any alteration or adulteration:
Honestly, President Musharraf has done wrong to an extent that I have no sympathy for him but being a student of Journalism and practicing Citizen journalist, I feel that there is an extent to which limits of decency allows us to write but this trash in guise of Freedom of Expression is simply unacceptable on grounds of ethics and morality. The UK journalists who wrote the story using indecent words against Pakistani President (leaving my disagreement with his policies) and agency that syndicated and printed their such write up in my view, are wrong and they ought to apologize us the Pakistanis for this attitude.
Filed under: Freedom of Expression, Opinion, Pakistan | Tagged: Citizen Journalism, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Journalism, Morality, Musharraf, Pakistan
I totally agree, this is an abuse of that freedom…!
Do we really like our presidents being called sonofabitch? What does it say about the rest of us?
@Phil:
I don’t like it that way and this is why I have written this post.
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Salaam
Honestly, it is wrong to call anybody sonofabitch that is publicly offcourse.
certainly quite objectionable to abuse anyone at all…President or a beggar,its quite inhuman and unethical to use foul “language”…there are better ways of expressing your anger and disagreement!
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its so shameful to listen to such remarks .its totally wrong .