Showcasing the Journalism work of Daniel Rosney
An enthusiastic, motivated BJTC accredited journalism graduate, a self-starter with excellent organisational skills and proven experience in various media environments.
Social Media once again benefits people across the Globe
Social Media is now a vital communication tool, people now talk in terms of “I’ll Facebook you” or “Tweet me and I’ll re-tweet it”. These are relatively new and are most commonly used for social reasons rather than world global issues.
But today, social media was used to highlight a largely unheard of man. Meet Joseph Kony, his aim is to stay anonymous. Today, the world’s global network came together and their aim: to make Joseph Kony famous.
Following on from the Arab Spring, Twitter became the platform for something that is wrong to be showcased on a world stage. Gone were the unimportant trending topics, largely to do with One Direction, and instead all top 10 of the World Trending Topics were to do with the ‘Kony 2012′ campaign.
Jason Russell, a film maker, changed the world today. His film ‘Invisible Children’ was edited as a 30 minute promotional video with the aim to make Joseph Kony famous. Kony, the 2012 version of Adolf Hitler is abducting children as young as 4 in Uganda and turning them into rebels, making them kill or disfigure innocent people who disagree with Kony’s views.
It’s difficult to put into words how important it is to make this man famous. Few people know who he or what he does. So if you weren’t on Twitter today or you resisted ‘jumping on the bandwagon’, the first 5 minutes should change your opinion.
Sometimes words are difficult to portray the feeling inside…
I cried.
To know there is such cruelty happening right now…not surprised for I have chosen to not take on the worries of the world as they feel to big.
Maybe that was the real reason I cried….guilt.
However, the old saying “A problem shared is a problem halved” rings true here. If we all did just “one little thing” no matter how little it is, then we have each done something constructive; and so I will, so that I don’t feel guilty anymore…and maybe then I won’t feel like crying.
Because the children don’t need my tears, they need all our help.
Daniel, as your Auntie and God Mother, I am so unbelievably proud of you. Well done on all of your efforts in journalism and on doing “your bit” to highlight this issue and in helping a fellow journalist to get the story out.
I pray that one day – very soon – I will see the news, hear the news, and read the news that the Kony 2012 mission has succeeded.
Yvonne x
very powerful!
This was discussed all day yesterday among some of our Stanford staff, faculty and students. The message is getting there and this piece has helped my understanding of the issue. Well done Daniel!