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Dalton1
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 Posted - 15 Dec 2007 : 00:17:04
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Now the truth is coming out. barely days after threading about the hypocrisy and arrogance of some chameleon public officials, the point can only come out this way. When their Deyda was killed in cold blood, that's when the spirit in their blood drained out. Now, they can only come out this way. It is indeed factual enough...A food for thought....Days before the rememberance of Deyda-, threats are flooding, rumors rife....
http://www.thepoint.gm/The%20Bite529.htm
Leave journalists alone
Wednesday 12th December 2007
The person who described journalism as a business of making enemies is right. It is especially so for investigative journalists, who probe behind the scene to get the real facts and publish them, with little or no regard for the consequences. In places like Colombia, drugs barons who are uncomfortable with their dogged digging always find a way to get rid of them. But in Africa it is public officials who are usually at loggerheads with journalists. It is so because most public office holders across the continent see their positions as an opportunity to enrich themselves at the expense of the people.
And journalists by the nature of their profession – society’s watchdog – are ever so alert to such misdeeds and expose them wherever and whenever they happen. Because such officials do not want to be exposed, they court journalists by inducing them with favours now and again. Alternatively, where that fails, they resort to intimidation.
Where senior public officials lose their jobs because they do things that endanger the lives of the people, that is a story no real journalist would sweep under the carpet. And where such officials make phone calls threatening such journalists and abusing their mothers, journalists have to stand firm and rally behind their colleagues.
Our advice to public officials who do not want to have a bad press is that they should do the right thing all the time. But when they act in bad faith, they should expect to be vilified. We can never ever condone a situation where one person allows his or her own selfish interest to endanger society. Food is life. And consuming bad food is a threat to life, and anybody who has a hand in making us eat bad food is a monster, who should be shut away from the rest of humanity.
We journalists take our job very seriously. We cannot be intimidated by phone calls by people whose hands are stained and dirty. A word is enough for the wise!
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