Min Swe - Name

Newspapers always stop working when the clock strikes 2 in the morning. Once, the night editorial team at Bandula Newspapers went to work at 3 in the morning, but they still didn't know they had to stop working.

The full text of the news for tomorrow's edition has already been sent to the editorial office, but the editorial team of Bandula has not yet gotten up from their seats and is sitting quietly. In fact, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Bandula U Sein, has ordered them to "wait patiently tonight," and they have been waiting without realizing it until bedtime.

The editorial department often came to complain, "It's almost 3:30, should we close the form? The morning newspaper will be late." They had to wait a moment because of the strike power, but the editorial team was not very enthusiastic about something they were waiting for.

However, it was 3:30 p.m. and soon a Reuters report arrived, and the editorial team was on its way.

The next day , Bandura came out a day earlier than other newspapers, with the headline in giant letters: "Turkish President and Dictator Kemal Ataturk has passed away. "

Bandula U Sein's opinion was correct. It seems that the editorial team was told to wait so that the newspaper would not miss the news that the "Kim Atatürk" was in full swing.

However, Kimel Atatut was not the only one who died that night in the whole world. As far as I know, a broker named Ko Aung Pe, who lived 3-4 blocks away from the Bandula newspaper office, also died. However, in a faraway part of the world, there was only Kimel Atatut's story, and there was not a single mention of the broker Ko Aung Pe in the entire newspaper.

I started thinking.

What kind of world is this? It was not just in Bandula, but in all the newspapers in Yangon the next day. Those who had passed away at the same time as Kimel Atatuk or sooner or later had to pay 2.5 or 3 kyats to be included in the obituary.

Is this world a religion? I want my close friends and relatives to know, or I want to be in the newspaper so much that I can't get a good place without paying for an advertisement. But Kim Attar is not only described with his good deeds and his children, but the newspaper has to buy the news with a lot of money to include it.

If Ko Aung Pe were not a broker but a dictator, he would be respected and recognized by the world like Kim Il-sung. However, I wonder if he would have been a dictator only if he was a dictator. This is not the case. The late U Tun Shein, Leti Pandita Saya U Maung Gyi, U Ottama, and Master Pyo Moning were not dictators. However, they were very active in the newspapers.

Why did this happen? During the world war, countless people joined the war. The newspapers did not mention who they were. The boxer Jules joined the war, not only in the United States, but also in the Burmese newspapers. We do not know how many people died in the village of Myaydu above. We saw the news of Shwe Phi's death in the newspapers. It was so cruel that the number of people killed was incalculable. When San Phey was killed, the whole country heard about it. A few years ago, many poor rebels died, but the newspapers only mentioned Saya San's name.

Refugees were often seen lying on the roadside platforms, without food. When Gandhi was starving in jail, the newspapers were predicting the situation of the day and the next. While I was suffering from a severe headache and was dying, the Progressive newspaper reported that King George was coughing.

This shows that journalists are biased towards people with different opinions. But is it the fault of the newspaper? It is hard to blame them. “Aung Pe, a broker near our newspaper office, died and Daw Nyo Ei Thar went to war. A Malay from Myay Du village is dead. The rebel Aung Bu was shot dead. Coolie Bo Tok is even thinner today because he has not eaten. If we had to include the news of Nga Phyo living in western Yangon, it would not take up enough space in a whole newspaper and no one would want to read it.

Journalists work with readers, so they have to report what they want. What do they want? What they want is not to expect the situation of people they don't know at all, but to know what they know and understand, and to hear about the current situation, whether it's good or bad.

For example, does the reader remember the death of Ko Pein on 36th Street in Yangon?