Nacib and Naomi

Stanisław Barszczak, The wheelbarrow boy…
Naomi, he calls her in this way, she recently met him and now she is meeting at the Sana’a Gate. Nacib is a well-known investigative journalist from Japan. Now he was accused of defamation. Frustrated by the lost process, he quits working in a newspaper. Fleeing from her own country, in return, she receives from her fate an order to solve the mystery of her daughter’s disappearance, which took place a few decades earlier. And she is supposed to be his co-worker. They both do immense research and journalism work to explain the dark secret. Their life, it could be a racial thriller, he tells a very engaging story. It shows how the work of an investigative journalist is focused on this adjective: investigative and detective work, digging into the truth. For young journalists, Nacib could be who Wojaczek for teenage poets and Charles Bukowski for literary rebels. Even if it is a bit naïve coupon for rebellious journalism, it is a laurel of the first sort. It is valuable for documentation, which is less and less time-consuming in the fast media or at the work of a freelancer. The ethical issue worth considering: whether to publish an important text, without any solid evidence to support theses. The journalist turns into roles with a private detective … So until recently, the unemployed Nacib, looking for the possibility of easy earnings, watching the work of photojournalists and reporters, begins to record films from crime scenes and accidents to sell them to television stations. And now, just as if chasing only money and fame, it crosses borders. Nacib grabs and intrigues, although it is difficult to agree with his methods of operation. However, it is difficult to refuse to engage him in his work and the will to succeed at any price. I find the work of both of them as a supporting subject: how far can one go in unmasking reality? Where does curiosity and empathy end and a tragedy begins to traffic? To caution – not only for tabloid journalists. They are heroes for me, they are facing commercial temptations in the fight for reliability of information transfer. We are probably presenting you with a fairytale about defiant journalism, in which the truth is more important than the results of audience viewing, and professional reliability wins with the need to applaud. But I think you’ll agree with me about their right job. Sometimes you have to cover the backstage of revealing scandals etc.(to be continued)

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