Explanation, little too late

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Since the press began to dedicate columns in newspapers especially for those who specialize in criticizing the actions and policies of governments, many wonder about the usefulness of writing as long as the parties to whom criticism is directed do not respond or interact with what is written, and things remain unchanged.

The truth that anyone who works in the press or who writes a daily column knows is that the government is not a private company or an individual free from restrictions and routine. Rather, it is more like a huge, slow-moving elephant, with poor eyesight and defect in hearing, and above all indifferent and unable to respond immediately to what is written in the press unless it is a disaster or crime.

The irony is that the government agencies most deserving of criticism are usually the most backward, thus the least responsive to what is written and vice versa.

I can say, from my experience with writing that I find some response from those concerned with what I write, either in the form of communication to explain what was hidden from me or to respond to what I demanded in the article, and the matter is often settled and then it ends, and I do not go back to writing about it, but it seems that it is better to indicate, from time to time, what is being responded to.

I also often resort to contacting the government official and settling the matter with him directly instead of writing about a topic that worries me, and I avoid routine correspondence in letters.

Here I single out the Director General of the Public Authority for Industry , Engineer Abdul Karim Taqi, the Director General of the Manpower Authority, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior Lieutenant-General Al-Barjas, and the Interior assistant undersecretaries, Major General Abdeen Abdeen, Major General Jamal Al-Sayegh, Major General Mansour Al-Awadi, the distinguished ministers of justice, electricity and health, the Director-General of the Municipality Eng. Al-Manfouhi, the Director-General of the Information Authority, brother Musaed Al-Asousi, and many others who often respond and take the initiative to solve what is presented to them, within the limits of reason and the law without the need to write an article.

Also, when writing, for example, about issues that are impossible to solve immediately, such as the economic situation, it is naive to assume that the Minister of Finance or Economy will act upon reading any article, and amend the situation, even if he is convinced of the correctness of what was written. Rather, it requires following known decision-making channels, and this takes time.

The continuation of writing on a particular issue, and from several parties, often puts pressure on the decision-making bodies, and much of what newspaper writers touch on in their columns is done, but the reader usually does not link writing and action, especially if the action occurred after a relatively long period of writing about him!

In conclusion and in response to the critics of what is written in the newspapers, and their frustration that no one in the government hears, reads or follows what is written, and thus they allude, albeit implicitly, to the futility of these, we say that even if they are right, it is better to keep writing than to remain completely silent.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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