Kaieteur News the grand media of sensationalism and misinformation
The Kaieteur News has once again demonstrated in full regalia, why it is the grand media of sensationalism , among its sister CARICOM media houses as it sought once again to mislead the Guyanese public on the matter pertaining to Bai Shan Lin’s logging activities in Guyana.
This is yet another unmistakable attempt, with the political opposition’s connivance, at derailing not only government’s national socio-economic development programmes, but also to discourage foreign investment endeavours in Guyana. It is indeed very sad that this publishing house, can so knowingly and deliberately continue to wage economic warfare and sabotage against the State in its pages, that are wholly political in nature. And as again demonstrated, once a response is given to its pedalled misinformation and lies it does not accept such a challenge, in the form of having its reporters engage the source. For example, it has failed to respond to the Guyana Forestry Commission’s press conference. Of course it cannot, since the latter would have nailed all the ugly lies that have been appearing in its pages, for the past two weeks. As an example of its well known chronic campaign of selective reporting, it seeks to convey to the Guyanese nation that the Chinese logging company has been chopping down our forests, and in the process exporting all the harvested logs. One does not need to be a political scientist to comprehend the plan behind such a journalistic strategy. What it has deliberately failed to mention is the known fact, that the company has since its arrival in Guyana, entered into many joint venture arrangements with local loggers, and that these have revived the latter fortunes. If this is not high wickedness, then what else describes! Still bent on its traditional pattern of reporting, it resorted to screaming that well known Lindener Phillip Bynoe, threatened its staff at a recent press briefing. Given the fact that Bynoe is still considered somewhat a high-profiled personality, it is quite strange that no other media house has carried such a report. It does beg the question as to whether this is not another attempt at misleading the public. It is absolute that attacking any media house/ representatives should be great cause for concern since it threatens a very fundamental pillar of democracy; however, OBSERVER has noted the double standard, not surprising, of this media, on this particular matter, whether or not it did occur. It has alleged Bynoe’s act, as an “attack on the press”. Now, juxtapose this convenient accusation, with the deafeningly silent position taken with regards the combined opposition cuts to Budget 2012, 2013, and 2014, that affected the annual subventions of the State media GINA and NCN. Have these acts not been attacks on these entities’ rights to exist, and as a consequence their freedom to report on government’s policies? As has been frequently reported in this media, the Kaieteur News is a unique kind, in any region, for its unflagging, orchestrated consistency for attacking socio-economic projects that advances the livelihoods of citizens. For there is no journal, properly established on the tenets of true professionalism, while fully understanding the imperatives of investing in the national well being, that will ever contemplate such treason, as has been the track record of this noxious publishing house. Clearly this, another attack on the Chinese, apart from containing the dangerous elements of xenophobia, is ingratitude to a nation that has added very, very significantly to Guyana’s economic development in ways too numerous to mention. So much has this nation and its people continue to benefit from the generousity of the Chinese people that no amount of commendations can suffice. As an aside, OBSERVER has noted that the very opposition party, the People’s National Congress(PNC) that had been the government of the day, when Guyana established diplomatic relations with China in 1972, and had voted overwhelmingly with the United Nations General Assembly at that time, ensuring that this Asian giant finally be accorded its rightful seat as a member, now leads the anti-Chinese assault. Is this not the greatest of contradictions? As for the greatest misinformant ever in the annals of Caribbean media publishing - its epitaph will be etched as follows: HERE RESTS THE GREATEST OF PRINT LIARS, WHICH DEEDS CLOSED ITS PAGES!
