Thanx Suntou for sharing. I encourage Hon. OJ to take The Gambia Journal up on their offer to convey OJ's Tobaski message to his constituents. I further encourage OJ to correct the record of the article in the Journal of which he had taken umbrage. The most valuable way to correct errors in a newspaper is for the same newspaper to publish the correction citing the culprit article. It will not be valuable for OJ to be so angry at the newspaper that he neglects to correct her error.
Haruna.
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From: suntou touray <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 8:11 am
Subject: OJ V The GambiaJournal. An interesting exchange
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.J. pissed off with The Gambia Journal
9 November, 2009 05:20:00
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A Gambia Journal editor who called veteran politician, former Minister
n the Jawara administration, leader of the defunct former ruling PPP
arty and member of the NADD executive Omar Jallow, ran into a verbal
howdown with him leading to Mr. Jallow hanging the phone on him. It
as on Wednesday November 25, 2009 at about 10:30 that Mr. Jallow was
alled and invited to give a message through the online journal to the
ambians at home and in the Diaspora on the occasion of the Muslim
east of Eid al Adha, or Tobaski. Mr. Jallow asked the editor to call
ack, since he was then with some people.
The Gambia Journal had called other figures of the Gambian opposition
ffering them chance to deliver messages to their constituencies. When
he editor called about two and a half hours later, Mr. Jallow sounded
rusque and haughty and blamed the Gambia Journal for “tarnishing his
mage” two years ago for asking if rumors then circulating of his
rossing over to the ruling APRC party were true. The editor admitted
hat yes it was The Gambia Journal that published that in an
ditorial, but said it was a question, not a definitive statement.
Why didn’t you contact me to verify before you published it?” The
ditor answered that they tried to but could not come through. Mr.
allow reacted that it could not be true as everybody who wanted to
et to him got through. The Gambia Journal editor insisted that they
id try but could not get to him.
The editor explained that after the publication, a friend of O.J.’s
esident in the United, did called and protested O.J.’s innocence and
as told that he was invited to write and refute the story on The
ambia Journal site. But according to the editor ”Mr. Omar Jallow was
ot listening, he was going on and on and on trying so hard to
stablish what he has done for Gambia and the times he went to jail
hen Jawara was in England. I was able to get my words through to him
hen he paused to take in some oxygen, the editor said. Mr. Jallow
aid Mr. Sankara of The Gambia Echo forwarded him the article when he
as in Nigeria and he gave his side of the story to the Gambia Echo.
r. Jallow said that he was disappointed because he thought we were
ll on the same camp.
When he finally quiet down, I told him that it is evident that there
s a difference between our paper and him, but he has a constituency
o talk to and if he is still interested in talking to that
onstituency? Mr. Jallow said he doesn’t trust us and hung up.
The Gambia Journal still stands by our editorial but that being said,
e will also not stop trying to respectfully reach out to Mr. Omar
allow for him to talk to his constituency.
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