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Poor journalism again.

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Dowa plane crash: Two die, bodies in pieces—KCH
by Amos Gumulira and Juliet Chimwaga , 09 March 2007 - 05:16:26
The expressions on people’s faces told it all. They were a sad, shocked lot.
As some gazed at the scene before their eyes in disbelief, more people kept flocking to this maize field at Chavala Village, Traditional Authority Mkukula in Dowa yesterday (Thursday).
The area—perched between Dowa Turn-Off and Mtengowanthenga, roughly 200 metres east of the Lilongwe-Mzuzu M1 Road and about 20 kilometres from the Capital City—is where a plane belonging to Executive Air Charter crash-landed, claiming two lives as it veered into a tree. No official explanation was given for the cause of the crash.
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) director Dr. Hadge Juma said only two bodies were brought in dead—that of pilot Francois Janasen van Vuuren who, he said, worked for Executive Air Charters, and Garnet Halliday.
According to Juma, Halliday was an official of Paladin Africa Limited—the company that is expected to mine uranium at Kayelekera in Karonga. The Nation could not immediately establish if the two were going to the mining site.
Juma said the two died of severe body concussions which cut their bodies into pieces, making it difficult for medical authorities to identify them. Medical personnel could only recognise the victims’ faces, he said.
Earlier, there were conflicting indications on the number of people who died in the crash.
Police public relations officer Willie Mwaluka said in an interview that the accident claimed two lives while Transport and Public Works Minister Henry Mussa put the death toll at three when he briefed Parliament.
“The crash happened at 07.14 as the plane approached Dowa District on its way to Karonga from Kamuzu International Airport (KIA),” Mussa told MPs after the legislators demanded a ministerial statement on the incident.
Although Mussa said the Civil Aviation Department were still investigating the cause of the accident, he did not identify the victims.
Unsatisfied, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe Mapuyu Joseph Njobvuyalema accused Mussa of just giving general information and demanded that the House be furnished with details of the victims.
But MP for Chitipa South Mwelekete Kalua backed Mussa, saying it would be wrong for the minister to announce the casualties without informing their families first.
In the afternoon session, major parties represented in Parliament condoled members of the bereaved families through their leaders in the House.
The twin-engine aircraft, a Pipper 34 ZSMSN, reportedly left KIA at about 6.10 am, according to a security official who did not want to be named.
It was not clear how the accident happened but an eye-witness told The Nation at the scene that he had seen the plane flying towards Dowa Hills.
According to the villager, the hills were covered in fog. He later saw the plane returning from the hills and noted that it produced an “abnormal sound”, flew to a higher altitude and then crashed.”
When The Nation arrived at the scene, it found that airport security and police had cordoned off a radius of at least 100 metres to keep people away from the wreckage.
The area was thronged with vehicles, several police officers, villagers and doctors. Apparently, the bodies had already been taken to KCN.






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I had a conversation about the shoddiness of that article just a few hours ago. "Bodies in pieces"? Where do they get these reporters (or just as importantly, editors) from?!

-- Edited by awmygawd at 22:00, 2007-03-09

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awmygawd wrote:

I had a conversation about the shoddiness of that article just a few hours ago. "Bodies in pieces"? Where do they get these reporters (or just as importantly, editors) from?!

-- Edited by awmygawd at 22:00, 2007-03-09

its a well written piece on malawi standards,and what constitutes poor journalism?elaborate how you would have presented it if it came from you.



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Chomwe cha adetsa nkhawa Amikhe pa nkhani yonseyi ndi kusiyana kwa ma reports. Ena akuti azunguwo amazathandiza celtel, ena akuti anali mzungu wa Paladin Mining, ena ati inali Jet, ena ati inali Light Prop lane.

Chkhulupiliro ndi chochepa, which is which. And the government wont mention no names.

Amikhe has got some questions on this whole Uranium mining issue that need imminent answers. it is a topic in its enterelity.

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raz na piza wrote:

its a well written piece on malawi standards...



 



Wrong attitude Raz'. It's counter-productive to whip out a new, shorter yardstick everytime you evaluate Malawian work. Anyway, I still disagree with you; the style in which the article's written (not the professionalism of the journalist behind it as such) is far from appropriate, even when compared to other Malawian writing.

I won't go into how I would have written the article (it's not in my place to do so), but I can point out the issues I have with it. Take the "bodies in pieces" bit for e.g. Was it necessary to give such graphic details the prominence of an article heading, especially when they weren't even central to the story? I think that was incredibly insensitive of Nation Online and seriously hope the victims' families did not read the piece. Then there is the bad grammar; "veered into a tree"? To veer is to 'turn sharply' or to 'swerve'. How on earth does a crash landing light aircraft "veer into a tree"? There's more of that in the article. Finally, I think the language used is too colourful for an article such as this one. It would have been OK for a tourism or entertainment piece maybe, but certainly not for an article concerning a tragic plane crash. 'Insensitive and poorly written' is my final verdict.

-- Edited by awmygawd at 03:54, 2007-03-10

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awmygawd wrote:


How on earth does a crash landing light aircraft "veer into a tree"?

how would you describe it then,by the way are you in the trade?(journalism)




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The article is in bad shape because Malawian Jornos rush to write stories before cunducting proper research to guarantee quality of the story. We all know how big jets are and I dont see any reason why one can use a word jet to refer to light prop plane other wise may BE we are used to planes produced by Witch craft engineering from Ntchisi where by a lichero can be used as a JET.

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Pope wrote:

how would you describe it then,by the way are you in the trade?(journalism)




 



Again, it's not in my place to describe an event I did not see for myself. I can tell you this though; from the little I know about falling objects, a veering motion (i.e. 'sharp turn'/ 'sudden change of direction') that leads a crashing aircraft specifically into a tree is, if not unlikely, a bad way of describing (or completely irrelevant relative to) the loss of altitude that leads to the crash itself.

On my profession (that is, if I belong to any to start with), I'll maintain strategic silence for now.

-- Edited by awmygawd at 11:31, 2007-03-10

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I am told the plane veered after crushing down,the problem was with our guy in constructing the sentence,it seems he was reporting to baboons.

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Tutu wrote:

Poor journalism again.

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Dowa plane crash: Two die, bodies in pieces—KCH
by Amos Gumulira and Juliet Chimwaga , 09 March 2007 - 05:16:26
The twin-engine aircraft, a Pipper 34 ZSMSN,








and it is supposed to a Piper aircraft not Pipper as the two reporters put it.



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mikhe wrote:

Chomwe cha adetsa nkhawa Amikhe pa nkhani yonseyi ndi kusiyana kwa ma reports. Ena akuti azunguwo amazathandiza celtel, ena akuti anali mzungu wa Paladin Mining, ena ati inali Jet, ena ati inali Light Prop lane.

Chkhulupiliro ndi chochepa, which is which. And the government wont mention no names.

Amikhe has got some questions on this whole Uranium mining issue that need imminent answers. it is a topic in its enterelity.
A Mikhe, the other thing that does not seem to make much sense is that the plane left KIA at 6.10 am and crashed at 7.14. That means the plane took an hour to cover a distance of less than 15km between KIA and the crash site.


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I GUESS SOME THINGS ON MALAWIANA WILL NEVER CHANGE HUH

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Dowa plane crash: Two die, bodies in pieces—KCH
by Amos Gumulira and Juliet Chimwaga , 09 March 2007 - 05:16:26

Police public relations officer Willie Mwaluka said in an interview that the accident claimed two lives while Transport and Public Works Minister Henry Mussa put the death toll at three when he briefed Parliament
                                                
How can a govt trusted minister give that wrong info in the House? Did he get it from eyewitness or just using guess work? Was he just too lazy to call the police or KCH to verify? He was lying to every malawian citizen and the world. He has clearly showed us that he is failing to do his job properly.                 

-- Edited by Dada Ngwazi at 15:09, 2007-03-11

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the plane turned back around mvera after they noticed a fault.

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The style of writing differs greatly when presented, depending on that particular journal. What we should be asking ourselves is if this report was meant for a tabloid or broadsheet. 

On the other hand there's too much information given out from different parties and i for one dont know what exactly happened.

Someone asked why the reporters didnt do a proper job, by Mwian standards i can say kuti maybe amafuna to scoop the story before any other paper got hold of it or plain lazy and not bothered to do xtensive research.

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The Nation is (or at least I've always thought of it as) a serious newspaper. That's seems to be changing though. Remember how much ink they dedicated to that gospel singer's recent divorce case?

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They are quickly losing their identity.

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they are quickly losing touch.

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it is easy to judge someone when you are not in their shoes. we should not expect 100 percent accuracy from our papers. they might have not had all the details but at least we got the news that there was a plane crash, which was true.

even in the developed countries where journalists have the latest communication equipment, we still get conflicting reports when they are breaking news.

as for choice of vocabulary, if the bodies were in pieces, then there were in pieces! you wanted the journalist to fabricate a lie?

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