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THe B52's new hit single on Ambergris Radio = Croc Attack!

I'm waiting with bated breath for the first battle to be fought based on "My Thesaurus can kick you dictionary's ass any day...Praise be to the Alphabet...no not the Cyrillic....My Alphabet, infidel"

You know, i will not judge anyone. I am a journalist and in fact i am an active member of the Society for Environmental Journalism. As journalist, we must never give our opinion in a story. Thats is why there is an editorial. We are charter (if we are recognized) with a journalism code of ethics.

I work on a crocodile story for two weeks and i aired it. I spoke to croc feeders, toursists, experts, the different authorities and i reported the story as is. My job is not to challenge science, as a journalist, i must educate and advocate for change through factual reporting.

these are just a few facts:

Crocodile are endagered and procted under the Wildlife Protection Act of Belize

Abuse of an whildlife in any form including feeding, tampering with habitat, getting within a range of 100 yards, stealing there young whether egg, or babies are just a few of the ways they are considered under the law to be abuse.

Even getting close ( within 100 yards) to take pics is a form of abuse.

There are many ways to skin a cat (educate our listers, views or readers).Journalist must explore how best we can attract our readers but we must first be educated about issues.

Doctor Bob, from the International Center for Journalism once told me this "a good journalist is one who educate people to champion meaninful change."

"Good taste" Hmmm, seems to me that's all the crocs want, is just one good taste. Yummy. Not to mention, biting aside, significant damage could be done with one mere flick of a tail whilst someone one is near or touching or riding for a photo op . . . you'd think a rational person would be able to see the reason in that, before they got anywhere near.

All the aforesaid in this thread, did me absolutely no good at all with my last two travel companions. Neither of them would listen to me. There was nothing for it but to go and see the crocs. I did not participate. Regardless, anything I said, went in one deaf ear and out the other. I was grateful to see neither of them got hurt.

I'm back to my suggestion that flyers be placed in every hotel room.

As a reformed journalist myself, reading that post proved genuinely painful. I'd almost rather sit on a hungry crock than endure the lack of structure, misuse of the language and disregard for spelling it exhibits.

Or not. What, as they say, ever. Seems to me the law and, probably more important in this case, common sense pretty much cover any aspect of the issue.

CatMo, Im afraid to respond cause I might misuse the lingo misspell forget comma's and periods But nice too meet you anyhow.

i know it has errors babes, it took me 1 min to escribir my comentario. This space is not a perfect space. ok. Look at your writting. Despues vas a see. And by the way the issue is not over my writting, its about how Ambergris Today screewed up on thier article on crocs, not me. tek dat!!!!

Let's try and cool it before we start seeing personal attacks!!

Personal Attacts and I havent even posted !!!