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MMU: Times distorted Granger’s remarks for own agenda

Apr 8, 2015
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The Media Monitoring Unit says the Guyana Times distorted remarks on the death of Courtney Crum-Ewing made by APNU’s David Granger at the Linden rally to “fit the agenda of the article, which to all intents and purposes, was to deceive from the ‘get-go.’”

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The MMU’s attention was drawn to an article published in the Guyana Times Newspaper on Monday, March 6, 2015, captioned “Granger pushes envelope on incitement” (pg.14).
In the article, it is alleged that the leader of the opposition coalition political parties, APNU+AFC, told a large rally in Linden on Saturday, March 14, 2015 that it was the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) that had killed ex-soldier, Courtney Crum-Ewing.
After carefully going through the article in its entirety, the Unit found three (3) instances where Mr. Granger was directly quoted by the newspaper. The first and second quotes are found in paragraph 3 and states as follows: “I feel hurt. I feel wounded… Courtney was the first to fall” and “He was killed because he had a bullhorn in his hand…was executing his constitutional rights and was silenced.” The third quote is found in paragraph 4. The paragraph reads: Granger said he was deeply hurt over Crum-Ewing’s murder and pointed fingers directly at the governing party for the man’s execution as he told the persons gathered that he was convinced Crum-Ewing’s death was the result of the actions of the “rulers of darkness.” [Emphasis ours].
The Unit found in the above evidence that the reporter who wrote the article fallaciously construed the term “rulers of darkness” allegedly used by Mr. Granger to mean the PPP/C, because nowhere in the article is Mr. Granger quoted as saying in direct language that the PPP/C killed Courtney Crum-Ewing.
Based on all that has been outlined, the Unit’s conclusion is that the headline of the article was deliberately sensationalist, misleading and inflammatory. Further, it was obvious that in the accompanying story, Mr. Granger’s remarks were ingeniously distorted to fit the agenda of the article, which to all intents and purposes, was to deceive from the ‘get-go.’
The publication of this article by the Guyana Times Newspaper violated Section I of the MCC, which states that, “The media acknowledge that the deliberate distortion of reality so as to lead the public to a particular understanding of events and issues, without regard for reality, can poison the processes of democracy and therefore should not be done.”

The Unit also noted that in general news coverage for the month of March “APNU+AFC’s share of negative coverage in this section of the newspaper, was almost 8 times that of the Government, nearly 28 times that of the PPP/C, and double that of the Government and PPP/C, combined. Also, the APNU+AFC’s share of negative coverage resulted in the coalition overall, being the only entity to register net negative coverage.”

 

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The Opposition owns the Times.  Remember Jagdeo's PPP sold out the Mirror property to Ed Ahamad and it's now a hardware store?

 

Who in the PPP and why would the PPP do something like that?  The Mirror was used to fight the Burnham regime.

 

Now the Times is doing the job.  It's hard for a reasonable man to read that paper.

FM

Media monitors cite Chronicle’s ‘sordid’ editorial

Apr 8, 2015
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GECOM’s Media Monitoring Unit in its first report has cited the Guyana Chronicle for a “sordid” editorial from March 10 that was “politically extremist and telegraphed a pernicious and sinister intent to create unnecessary fear, tension and insecurity in the country”.

“The MMU takes issue with the editorial department of the newspaper for the general tone of the editorial, the unsubstantiated allegations made therein, and its unmistakably inflammatory nature.
For starters, it did not miss our attention that in a somewhat devious ploy to justify what came after, the editorial started off by making specious and unsubstantiated allegations of a violent nature against the opposition political parties, namely APNU and AFC. The writer then goes on to conjure up a frightening sanguinary portent of the nation’s future should the aforementioned two opposition political parties accede to government after the forthcoming elections. This prediction by the writer is evident from the following chilling and wholly ill-conceived remarks (para. 4): “Cry a river of blood for our country, and for the annihilation of hope for peace in the nation as headlines scream the death-knell of the nations flowers while fountains of champagne celebrate the death of the innocents, because man’s inhumanity to man knows no boundaries, nor loyalties to kith, kin, or country; but only to the id and the ego – and the egomaniacs proliferate; and history resounds with the cries of their victims.”
The Unit noted that the writer left no doubt in the minds of readers as to who are the supposed perpetrators of this imaginary Guyanese pogrom, because in the preceding paragraph to one quoted above, it is clearly stated that, “The celebrations and toasts to the coalition’s victory herald a frightening scenario…..”
Indeed, there are other instances in the editorial where death, mayhem and destruction is macabrely sensationalized, but we feel that the above example will suffice for now, as we do not want to run the risk of reproducing the whole sordid piece to make our point. ”

The MMU also notes that the state funded Chronicle’s editorials resulted in a disproportionate negative to positive ratio of coverage of 141:1 for the APNU/AFC; The APNU+AFC’s negative coverage for general news “was almost 157 times more than the Government’s, and 191 times more than the PPP/C. All told, the Government’s positive to negative ratio of coverage was 416: 1; the PPP/C’s positive to negative ratio was 194:1.”

The unit cites another editorial from March 14  which read, “The hardcore veterans whose charter includes utilization of all the Machiavellian strategies contained in the diabolical X-13 Plan are making the nation cry rivers of blood while the voice of reason has been silenced in the thunder of the canons that devastate the nation’s hope for a brighter future.”

It notes , “quite disturbingly, the language used in the final paragraph is expressed in the present tense, giving the impression as it is, that the country is currently in some kind of dystopian state of internal upheaval spawned by bloodletting (“…the nation cry rivers of blood…&rdquo, when, in fact, such a scenario is far removed from reality..”

 

 

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Mars

Jagdeo, Jaipaul Sharma & local print media cited for media conduct breaches

April 8, 2015 4:32 pm Category: latest news A+ / A

[www.inewsguyana.com]  Former President Bharrat Jagdeo was among the list of persons that were cited by the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) for breaching the code of conduct in a manner that amounted to racial division.

The MMU in its first report since it began operations said that Jagdoe’s comments at Babu John which had sparked outrage in sections of society were reviewed.

At Babu John, Jagdeo had said “they shout about racism of the PPP, but they practise racism. They whisper campaigns. In the last elections they went to some of the Afro- Guyanese villages and beat some drums at 6 O’clock in the morning and say let us throw out these coolie people. Get up, go out and vote, throw out the coolie people. That’s the kind of language they use. Anybody from our party who uses that sort of language, we will kick them out. This is our approach.”

“The Unit verily concluded that the remarks made by Dr. Jagdeo were racially divisive (probably, not intentionally), and should have been edited by all sections of the media that broadcast or printed the remarks verbatim.”

Meanwhile, the MMU in its report pointed out, the Voice of the People program aired on CNS Channel 6 which was cited

for the “unrestrained use of inflammatory language. Jaipual Sharma in his Voice of the People Programme, according to the MMU during a show entertained calls which amounted to some form of hostility.

“The MMU is very much concerned about some comments aired on the live call-in segment of the Voice Of The People program, broadcast on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 and hosted by Mr. Jaipaul Sharma,” the report noted.

The comments noted were those of two callers one of which said “…I want them to know Mr. Sharma we are prepared for them, we are ex-soldiers and we will prepare for them…” and the other “…If the East Indian people pay attention to the arrogance of Bharrat Jagdeo, Ramotar,  and these people they would ketch sense. I join with the other caller that say we are ex-soldiers, we are ready for them, we waiting on them, you understand. This election will not be like the last few elections in Guyana. We waiting on them Mr. Sharma…”

Across in the local print media, “citations were the order of the day for the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper for the publication of two (2) editorials that were blatantly inflammatory, and a letter that was deemed racially divisive; the Guyana Times Newspaper for publishing an article that was inflammatory and a distortion of facts; and, the Kaieteur News Newspaper, for the publication of an article that was racially divisive and distorted.”

Django
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Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

I have observed that Guyana Times and Chronicle have some ardent fans in GNI Political Forum.

I hope they read what GECOM'S Media Monitoring Unit says about those two papers.

I noticed most article are pulled from the two media

some are poorly written,i does smh reading it,you got

be gullible to digest .

Django

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