SINCE its birth the Kaieteur News has been bent on sensational journalism without any effort to ascertain the veracity of its publications.

The Kaieteur News is hell-bent on ‘being deliberately obtuse, appealing to emotions, being controversial, intentionally omitting facts and information, being loud and self-centred and acting to obtain attention.
Trivial information and events are sometimes misrepresented and exaggerated as important and significant, and often include stories about the actions of individuals and small groups of people’ the content of which is insignificant (Wikipedia’s definition of sensational journalism).
I guess some section of the public are happy with this since it ‘makes their day’. On the other hand, the majority of readers know for a fact that many times the source of information is so obscure that it must be concluded that they are non-existent.
Today the Kaieteur News’ open agenda is to destabilise the PPP/C Government simply because its owner can no longer get what he wants from the government. If I could recall, the refusal of a radio licence under former President Bharrat Jadgeo’s Government was the last straw that broke Lall’s back. His vengeance not only became personalised but his vicious attack on the Government and ministers and the social and economic development of this country can only be regarded as unpatriotic. Lall has become indistinguishable from people such as Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo.
The present piece of Kaieteur News sensational journalism is with regards to the Honourable Attorney General of Guyana, Mr. Anil Nandlall.
It is with much trepidation that I listened to the ‘doctored’ recording of an alleged conversation between a Senior Kaieteur News Reporter and Mr. Anil Nandlall. Then this morning I was shocked by the extreme level that the Kaieteur News can go to sensationalise this alleged conversation between the AG and the Senior Reporter. The Kaieteur News headline reads, “Attorney General Reveals Plans to ‘hit’ Glen Lall, KNews”. When the transcript is read any reasonable man will conclude that there was no such ‘plan’. All one can discern is a general statement hinting at the probability of a recurrence of what took place in August 2006 when some six workers were innocently murdered in cold blood at the Kaieteur News Printery. It was alleged then that it was a drug deal that went sour.
The purported ‘hit plan’ is an assumption that if Glenn Lall continues to use his newspaper as ‘a weapon’ then someone may repeat what had happened before. The person alleged to be the AG did not say that he will take a weapon and start to kill Lall and his workers. It is a severe strain on one’s intelligence to match the content of the KNews article with the heading of that article.
The content simply does not support such a heading. This reminds me of what my grandfather used to say: ‘Goat sh*t does wait fuh breeze blow’.
Now I want any reasonable person to analyse the audio recording itself. The transcript itself given in the KNews recorded numerous instances where the KN Reporter’s comment or reply were recorded as ‘inaudible’. This is even more pronounced when the audio recording is heard- one can hardly discern what the Reporter is saying. The pertinent question here is: Why is it that the voice purported to be that of the AG is loud and clear as opposed to the voice of the Reporter? This is deliberate ‘doctoring’ so that only one side of the conversation is given so that listeners will be unable to understand why certain replies were purportedly made by the AG! The entire dialogue should have been presented to the public. But this is how the KNews deceive its gullible readers.
It is also clear that the responses were carefully orchestrated and prompted by the Reporter to elicit the intended response and capitalise on it, having gained the confidence of the other party. This is a heinous display of deceit and poor journalistic ethics and professionalism.
It was a private conversation and should not have been brought to the public’s attention and moreover it must be recalled that in any private conversation expletives are used and in this case it was the KNews Reporter who began the use. The use of expletives are quite normal in daily interactions between people who are quite familiar with each other. Therefore, I do not see the ‘holier than thou’ attitude of some people and the emphasis on the use of expletives in the KNews article.
It is also clear that the KNews by the very content of its article on the alleged tax scam by Mr. Kamal Mangal viciously and intentionally provoked the Attorney General by continuing to address Mangal as the ‘AG’s Uncle’ and expressly trying to connect the AG with the alleged re-migrant scam. This was deliberate and wicked and it was meant to rile the AG and any reasonable man would have become angry at such insinuations. It is also evident that on many occasions the KNews was used as a weapon to attack people personally and there is nothing ‘patriotic’ about that. A patriot should pay his taxes!
It is now evident that the KNews has its own plan to destabilise this country and that plan began with a crusade against Dr. Bobby Ramroop, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and Mr. Winston Brassington and now the venom is spewing in all directions. In this case it is simply greed for material things!
In Dr. Ramayya’s words “everyone should have a piece of the pie” (DTV channel 8, Saturday 25th October). Just read between the lines!

HASEEF YUSUF
AFC Councillor/Region 6