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22/04/21

Press ‘censored’ as COVID-19 pushes events online

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The shift to online events has made it easier for organisers to control information, writes Joel Adriano. Copyright: Image byJoshua Woroniecki从Pixabay。该图像已裁剪。

Speed read

  • Rise of online press briefings has led to increasing controls
  • Searching questions are often filtered or ignored
  • 记者期待重返“正常”

By:Joel Adriano

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[MANILA] For better or worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced actual live events to move online.

In theory, this should have made them more accessible to the媒体, and news coverage easier and cheaper, especially since it removes the considerable expenses on travel.

不幸的是，转向在线会议，新闻发布会和网络研讨会也使组织者更容易有效地控制一切，从而成为审查的途径。问题通常被过滤，被认为至关重要或不喜欢他们的问题被完全忽略。

在许多情况下，组织者会向媒体提出预先的问题，但只会选择适合其口味的问题。实际上，某些选定的问题不是完全问题，而是对代理机构或专家辛勤工作的支持或赞美的陈述。

One Philippine政府我谈论这个问题的官员表明，我可能问了负面问题。但是我向他保证我没有。我只是问更深入地研究这个主题的棘手问题。

例如，在谈论对初创企业的支持的活动中，组织者忽略了一个问题，即他们如何确保该计划将提供平等的机会和多样性，而不仅仅是受益于通常的特权。这样的问题不是我所说的“杂货店”类型的问题，即何时可用，何时可用。

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A lot of events now have become one-way monologues, with rigid structures and little interaction. An editor who declined to be named shared her reporters’ complaints that online press conferences spent too much time on presentations, leaving little or no time for question and answer sessions. This way they not only filter the questions but also filter those who can ask them using the lack of time to entertain only one or two questions.

虽然这也发生在实际的现场活动中，但至少您有机会亲自与小组成员，演讲者和重要的客人接触。不再。他们经常会要求您简单地参考他们的新闻稿，在线活动结束后很少有人会给您答案。更糟糕的是，如果您提出问题或认为您不合作，他们甚至完全让您无法参加以后的在线活动。

捐赠上诉

In other ways, the shift to online has been generally good, making it easier forSciDev.Netjournalists like Neena Bhandari to attend global events. But there is no substitute for meeting people in real life.

“Looking forward to when life returns to normal and we would be able to meet and brainstorm in person,” Bhandari says.

“I hope to see the live events soon”, agrees one Philippine-based journalist. “Besides, I miss the free-flowing coffee.”

这一块was produced by SciDev.Net’s Asia & Pacific desk.

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