Sensual Pictures on our dailies do not help our Moral Landscape

Here's a copy of a letter I sent to the two dailies and a weekly. I dont know if they'll publish it. Anyway...

To Post Courier,
I'm disappointed at your recent front/back-page pictures, latest being Friday 30/07/10, in which you clearly subscribe to the Western marketing philosophy of ‘sex-sells’. Both dailies are guilty of this but more so the Post Courier.

Its quite clear now that the dailies not intend to protect this country but to exploit it. How? By providing news that ride on the emotions of the people (and in fact you super-size it!) so that we buy your paper. Then you show pictures of half-naked women so that all the men would buy it and expand our imaginations (and your sales). What’s with the topless Tapioca dancers, the netball players' bare thighs and now the Brazillian bare-bottoms? I cannot think of anything more hypocritical than your current methods of selling papers. You speak against crime and corruption yet you show complete lack of understanding (or maybe you do but deliberately ignore it) of where all these evils start: THE MIND. And the door to the mind is the eye. You provide an initial source of filth, lust and greed and unbridled passion. When we act on it by raping, stealling, killing, rioting you make a report of it and sell even more papers. Free speech; free expression; free press? These are concepts you exploit to facilitate your market.

WE are an ancient people of decency, respect, dignity and communal harmony. The West has slowly moved into our country through the media. It has caused us to change our values. From self-respect, dignity and true love for family and community to materialism and selfish pursuit of pleasure. Look to the West and see the filth and immorality. Do we want that for our beloved Papua New Guinea? Corruption starts with little gradual steps. First a bare knee and a tight skirt; then a bare thigh and some bellybutton. Now you have Brazilians with tiny garments barely covering the essentials. Knowing the way men are wired we soon want fewer garments on the women. Porn is born. We let the mind loose; becoming less satisfied with our wives or impatient because we don’t have one yet. Promiscuity increase as well as AIDS and sexual crimes. Yes of course we should have self-control. But just because we should does not give you the right to bombard us with filth that pushes our control to the limits.

If the dailies want to change this country? Then encourage proper standards of morality and decency. Or the least you could do is NOT contribute to the decay with your sensual publications. If you cannot, do not speak against corruption; for you are becoming the fountain of it.

Ganjiki