THE ‘Editor’s note’  (in Stabroek News June 6, 2010), in response to my letter ‘SN does not practice what it preaches’ is not acceptable. In your note you state the following – “CADRES did not reveal who had commissioned the poll on Thursday night, other than to say that it had been privately commissioned. Try as I might, I cannot understand how a major media organization such as Stabroek News would receive something as significant as polling results without asking the ‘supplier’ some basic questions about the client. Stabroek News has been in the news business too long to claim that it simply accepted CADRES’ refusal to name the client.
I urge Stabroek News to do the following: (1) impress upon CADRES that it must reveal the ‘party’ that commissioned the poll; and (2) since the end-use client and the funder of the poll might be different, Stabroek News must also provide information about who paid for the survey.
Further, since CADRES is a foreign organization, Stabroek News must clarify if the end-user and the funder (if indeed they are different) are Guyanese. If they are not, then CADRES is interfering in the internal affairs of Guyana.
PS. I received a call at about 10:45 from Ms. Benjamin of Stabroek News who reiterated the position of the newspaper regarding the CADRES poll. Notwithstanding that phone call, my questions still stands.