Ebrima,

keep up the good work.

Jabou

In a message dated 5/12/00 8:36:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Edi Sidibeh,

 You are not my level/standard, so I am not going to waste, even a minute of
 my time and debate you. And, by the way, you do not have to believe what I
 post to the L, that's your prerogative. In fact, that is even healthy in
 true democracy.

 But, fortunately, Edi, I did not delete the e-mail, in which one of my
 sources in the Gambia asked me to empty my PC, and I am now reproducing part
 of it, just for the record, so that you can read it for yourself.

 You'll even realise that there was in fact a compliment in the e-mail,
 captioned "Be on the Look out", but which compliment I had deleted, just
 trying to be humble.

 Yes, Edi, in most cases, I do rewrite the e-mails that I receive from my
 sources, without, of course, distorting the facts. And that is
 permissible/normal in Journalism. But you wouldn't even know that fact!

 I rewrite the e-mails, first and foremost, to disguise the sources, and,
 secondly, to simplify the content, so that the information they contain is
 well understood. >>

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