Brain Azore: THE Encarta online dictionary defines a tabloid as, ‘A small-format newspaper with a simple style, many photographs, and sometimes an emphasis on sensational stories’. A perusal of our daily newspapers, particularly the Kaieteur News, seems to suggest that this newspaper is fast attaining ‘tabloid’ status.
Reporting based on fact, delivered in a balanced and fair manner seem to be a thing of the past. Journalists and Editors alike seem to have abandoned this ethic, opting for the ‘fast and nasty’ style of reporting.
One example is the recent spate of news articles relating to the Ministry of Human Services internal investigation into the handling of the Neesa Gopaul case.
The human services Minister had said at a press conference on October 7, as reported by the four dailies, that an investigation was underway and the results would be made known by November 5.
PNCR activists, as again reported by the four dailies, held several protests outside the Ministry subsequent to the press conference, and days before the October 7 deadline.
Among the grievances expressed by these protestors was that no information was being made public on the investigation.
The Kaieteur News carried this angle of the report, and not once did the reporter mentioned that it was not yet November 5, the date which the Minister gave as the deadline for the release of the findings. And it gets worse.
The minister held another press conference on October 28 at which time the result of the investigation was made known, three weeks after it began, and one week ahead of the original schedule.
To my utter dismay, the Kaieteur News report of this event carried on October 29, captioned ‘Two Child Care officials sacked’ started off with the following line - ‘The long awaited report that was commissioned by the Minister of Human Services….’
Long awaited report seriously?
If this is not sensationalism, misrepresentation of the facts and malicious reporting, then what is?
KN is all about false reporting to spicy up the news..regular news arent good enough for them.. they should stop..cause pretty soon people are gonna realize what they are all about and wouldnt even be interested in what they are reporting..
ReplyDeleteOnce again people are noticing the way how KN misinform the public by adding their own piece into stories...This is a sure fact of sensationalism and sure misrepresentation of the facts......
ReplyDeleteKN is putting out the wrong facts about stories to the public so that they can get a faster sale on their dailies but this is causing problem cause when the reader get the truth they tend to be confused on who really is to believe.......
ReplyDeleteKN needs to be stop with this manner in which they put flavor to stories just because they feel this is how it should be put out there cause people will have the wrong view about things which are happening in and around the country.....
ReplyDeletethis is not surprising when coming from the kn news this is what kn news does they produce false,misleading or slanted reports about what had actually happen or what was actually said on conference about serious incident that occur in guyana.
ReplyDeleteneed i remind you that this is not the first or last time that kn news had made false or misleading reports on incident that occur in Guyana.remember the story of the misleading Amerindian report.
ReplyDeleteKN tries to manipulate the public with their sensationalizing of stories so that they can have a more reader and sale coverage and due to that the have the public in two mind set on the matter
ReplyDeletekn news continue to print misleading reports and miss inform the public on the real facts of stories.
ReplyDeletekn news and one of there columnist freddie kisson once again display and show evidence that kn news is just a paper that kn news is mostly report false and misleading stories when there columnist freddie wrote and articles about the president trying to spite him by not clearing the trench in front of his property when the reason for that was the workers had met the eight hour work time and left the rest of the work for the following day.
ReplyDeleteWell this is no bolt from the blue in light of the fact that KN never gets the facts straight. I always label them as "Lie-Fo-Sure" instead of "Kaieteur" due to the 100% guarantee of digesting false pieces of information from this "daily calamity"... This agency is definitely nothing but a disgrace to the media in Guyana!!! Another reason why I don’t waste my precious and hard earned dollar on this trash…
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