Tombong,

The first thing taught in broadcasting is YOU HAVE TO BE UNBIASED.
I have to say you BREAK all the RULES or YOU DON'T KNOW the Rules.
My brother George was merely applying the rules of journalism by giving BOTH
SIDES EQUAL TIME in his "call in" program. What a SHAME that you have to use
my brother as a scapegoat after all those innocent kids have been BUTCHERED.

Jabou, Thanks, I could not have said it better.

Astrid/


Jabou Joh Wrote:

Of course the powers that be wanted to put a stop to the "call in" program
offered by Radio 1 FM ( this is the first i have heard of GRTS offering
one,highly unlikely I'd say) as fast as possible because they saw that it
was a means for the people to  share their feelings and their opposition to
this murderous regime you are defending.Numerous people in Gambia have told
me that people were begining to talk about a mass demonstration by the
public
when Yaya returns in these calls, and that some even said they will stand
infront of his motorcade even if they will be run over.

The first sign of an oppressive totalitarian government is their
determination to make sure that the people do not have a chance to
confer,and that they are kept ignorant of what is going on, because in this
process of confering and sharing of ideas  lies their doom, and no one knows
it better than they.

There is nothing more telling than the fact that a foreign government had to
step in to defend the rights of George Christenson to accord the people an
organ of free speech in his own country, the abusers of this right being the
government of the day.


Tombong Saidy wrote:
Radio 1 FM, Sud FM and even GRTS Radio did not help the situation with their
phone-in programmes. Instead they added fuel to the fire and their action
has caused more havoc than good. In such a chaotic situation, having a phone
in programme for every side to be venting their anger was not a good idea.
All sorts of things, insults, misinformation, you named it were being said
over the air and that was why they were all ordered to stop the phone-in
programmes by the security. This was a justified action by the security.






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