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Subject:	Re: CHEI.....OBSERVER ON RAMPAGE AGAIN- THIS TIME LECTURING JOURNSLISM TO GPU, DR.TAAL IS HIGH AGAIN....
From:	abdoukarim sanneh <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:02:09 -0800
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Mr Jawo, with respect Daily Observer is sent to landfill site. Your last posting is the final judgement of the papers in the position of the present history of Gambian Journalism. Keep it up!

jawo abdoulie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
The Daily Observer is just clapping for a sinking government without knowing that it is also sinking. As it has insinuated, it has an enormous Responsibility. We can see that it is the responsibility of trying not to sink and at the same time trying to appease to a sinking enterprise.

Waw!!! Continue to be responsible Mr Daily, the time is however moving faster than whatever responsibility you can command, or whatever responsibility commands you. Surely it’s a mighty Responsibility to be commanded and accept to be robotized.

It is the Daily Observer of all papers that will preach between Earth and Space about the ethics of responsible journalism, but will turn around the next corner to sack its own staff who has been beaten by fellow Gambians, who happen to be in Kaki, and had to be admitted in hospital for such beating, just because she is doing her job. What an unenviable Responsibility that the Daily Observer has!!!

GPU do not even take offense as people can see where the "two responsibilities" lie. Certainly the truth cannot be hidden, nor can it be buried, however hard one tries. Trying to do so is like seeing the sun and calling it the moon; one only exposes ones personality and ones state of senses - of being sensible. Sensitivity goes with responsibility. The Daily Observer has one for sure.

GPU only those who have ran out of the ammunition of responsible-ness will argue that you are not a sacred cow which is beyond criticism. You have never claimed to be one. However, it seems that the killers of journalists are, the arsonists of media houses are, as the Daily Observer spends sleepless nights in formulating a defense team whenever the genuine papers expose the unscrupulous deeds of such criminals.

Can you imagine that the BBC seems to be most ineffective when it comes to reporting news about The Gambia now, thanks to the war on journalism in the country? The days when the voices of journalists like Mr Ebrima Sillah traversed the globe with news items from the length and breadth of The Gambia, booming melody seems to be gone – when Mr Sillah will tell the government that he does not manufacture news but only reports it.

Daily Observer, are you reporting and analyzing or Manufacturing?

GPU, you can see that the Daily Observer indeed has an enormous Responsibility. Please let the Daily carry that responsibility; let it carry it alone. When a media institution gives a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is actually newsworthy and of the public interest and national good, such editorials and articles become a daily reality in such a paper.

Carry on Daily Observer, you have become an expert JALI BAA now, not the Daily that once was.

Blow the flute and beat the drums, engage the BUGARABU and the GIMBE. Surely only the real enemies of good and responsible journalism that the beating is meant for will smile and dance. Daily JALI BAA!!! Their feet are itching for your music; your drumming of the drums of your type of journalism.

The Daily of The Gambia that once was!! Has become the Daily of a entity that is and that will soon be the one that was!! When this happens, what will happen to you Mr Daily? Change hands, faces and the drum beat again? Surely the commander of the commanded will disappear with the government that would have disappeared.

Abdoulie Jawo

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Responsible journalism versus irresponsible journalism
Written by DO
Thursday, 05 January 2006
Communication is a two-way process and the elements become comprehensible
when the audience receive a positive feedback of the message.

Thus, in the event of a misunderstanding between members of the same
fraternity, there is a need to broaden the contents within the parameters
of the message for better flow of information.
Our editorial on journalists and the rule of law was indeed a call on
journalists to realise that this noble profession can only be protected if
we carry out our professional activities with a high sense of
responsibility. Thus, when President Jammeh urged African journalists to
“open their minds to a sense of duty and responsibility”, he hit the right
note as we have witnessed the growing phenomenon of irresponsible
journalism at the national front.

Irresponsible journalism may be defined as the practice among journalists
to write purely for sensationalism and, at times, instigate readers.
Irresponsible journalism also includes journalists and media houses that
profess to be independent, truthful and supportive of freedom and
democracy, yet these are the very journalists or newspaper houses which
blatantly take political positions that make them appear as mouthpieces of
various opposition parties. In fact, irresponsible journalism includes
the practice wherein a newspaper or media houses see themselves as
unofficial opposition political institutions. This growing feature of
newspaper journalism is what cannot be described as responsible
journalism.

Irresponsible journalism includes a situation where a journalist plucks
out a name from thin air and proclaims that individual as “the man of the
year”, just because the individual won a legal case against the state, a
proclamation which illustrates a political bias of the journalist or media
house, not to mention the gender insensitivity of the proclamation, as if
women do not count. Common sense dictates that in this world of gender
sensitivity “the person of the year” award is more appropriate, provided
such a selection is not politically motivated, as the later falls under
the category of responsible journalism.

Responsible journalsim is about the bitter truth, and we at the Daily
Observer will publish the bitter truth, even if it hurts other media
houses. The Gambia Press Union (GPU) rejoiner falls under irresponsible
journalism. The GPU is not a sacred cow that is beyond criticism.

Communication, they say, has four different elements without which
listeners cannot be in tune with the ingredients of the message. But a
danger of missing each of the elements of communication, such as
interpreting, analysing and decoding of the message, could endanger human
perception of the desired information.

The laying of wreath in a public domain requires the permission of a
public authority for such an event to take place. This is simply the rule
of law.

While it is pertinent to note that our freedom is limited within the
confines of the law, we should at the same time respect and operate within
the ambit of the same law to enable us to uphold the ethics of the
profession.

The Observer editorial was merely meant to educate rather than to hurt the
feelings of others, and anybody who feels offended probably misunderstood
the points of the message.
Indeed, our editorial column has no space for half-baked journalism, much
less to be collaborators of dubious crimes.

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