Two days ago, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the world celebrated the International Press Day, and despite the passage of more than 48 hours of this event, I chose to continue to celebrate and celebrate it in this “press” space, which allowed me to manage the newspaper “Al -Watan”, thankfully.
Although my beginning was as a student and a marine officer, I move between ports and seas and explores its depths, my trip stopped for a while at the media beach. There, I received my education at the hands of the great professor Nabil bin Yaqoub Al -Hamr, former Minister of Information and the current media advisor to His Majesty, may God bless him.
My experience in the media world was completely different from my naval experiences; The media is a sea full of events and news, which does not calm down its night or day, and requires an exceptional ability to interact quickly and intelligently with developments, to ensure the ship continues to sail towards its goals.
I moved between the media and the press to continue this enjoyable work, which allowed me to share opinion with the people and others share their ideas, in order to deliver it to society and officials, so the press was my national lung that I breathed through those long years, participating in the journalism march that the reform project of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the king of the country, may God preserve him and preserve him, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Prime Minister, may God protect him.
The Bahraini press had a different taste from any other journalism, whether international or even regional, and was distinguished from the international press by its ability to dive into the depths and secrets of Bahraini society, and was distinguished from the regional press, with the authentic culture and science that Bahrain was the first in logic to teach it to females and men.
While we are proud of our councils today as our schools, those councils would not have interacted in society except through the press, and the community issues that are the modern evening in the councils, including also the press, the information, the news and the analysis, and the exit of these councils, which enriches journalistic work and national culture.
In our era that is overwhelmed by social media, some may think that the press may disappear and disappear, but the opposite is the correct one, the press will remain the source of what the people of the “social media” address, and the press will remain the “Juhayna” with the certainty Events.
On the journalism day, the journalist, as usual, faces more challenges in the profession of searching for the truth according to many criteria, which may admire its compass between this mountain steering from the information available every day and every moment, and between the requirements of the journalist or the urgent news, and providing an objective material that attracts the reader or viewer, but the professionalism and objectivity remain the determinants of the real journalist.
The professional journalist also faces another problem of the challenge of citizen press that does not adhere to the standards, as all people have become publishers, critics and analysts without the slightest accountability, which is difficult to practice the profession of troubles because the biggest challenge is to maintain the credibility between the noise of contradictory news, but as the British philosopher Herbert Spencer says “staying for the most suitable”.
Then comes the great responsibility of the national journalist in our distinguished society in its multiple cultures and love to coexist with all religions and races, which is to enhance the national identity, and we have succeeded in our journalism and informing us about building a bridge between the citizen and decision -makers, and this was reflected in many situations and almost daily events, and therefore the national journalist remains a partner in building the country and promoting freedoms in it through a free and responsible press.
Captain – Editor -in -chief of the English newspaper “Daily Tribune”
