Jun 16, 2007

Omar Bah's demagoguery

Sorry folks, I have been busy with numerous projects at work. But needless to say not much has changed at Nderry land. Omar bah has made to the United states. He was a victim of Nderry's careless behavior but you wouldn't know that from his macho stance on what he perceived to be a slight on the fact free zone by one Amadou Lowe.

Nderry and Co. need to decide what rules they play by. Whenever you attack them for something crazy that's published in their rag, they protest that it's a home for all opinions, honest debate is terrific, it's not the perspective of the editors, etc, etc, etc. It becomes clear, over time, that you're not supposed to suggest that articles published in the fact free zone reflect the viewpoint of the rag. So I genuinely don't understand what Omar Bah one of the foremost advocates of this don't-blame-us-we-just-publish-here view, thinks he's proving when he says:

Before going further, I want to make it clear that this Amadou Lowe guy is a non-issue when it comes to Gambian politics and better still media. Just briefly, I wish to state that Mr Lowe has done nothing while within and outside the Gambia to merit even being given publicity in the paper - and I firmly belief such reactions we are giving him are unnecessary. But we have to. People like these do not have to be left unchallenged. He touched my pulse when he unleashed an unwarranted attack entangled in a barrel of lies against the Freedom Newspaper.

This is sad. First Bah tries his hand at diminishing the stature of Lowe, but he saw the fallacy of that argument and immediately switched gears and wax philosophical about someone attacking freedom newspaper. Has he been reading the junk published on the pages of that rag. The unwarranted, shoddily written and outright falsehoods that nderry publish about other people surely couldn't have escaped the eyes of the editor in chief. But I digress...

Omar: welcome to the USA....However if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.

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