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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 09 Sep 2006 : 15:33:57
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Foroyaa Editorial
GRTS AND THE 2006 ELECTIONS
The media, including the state media, has a very important role to play in the development of society. In any election the electorate have to vote for the candidate of their choice. Needless to say, an electorate cannot make an informed choice unless they have access to information.
This is where the role of the media becomes significant. Information from all political quarters needs to be disseminated to the people. The ideas, policies, and programmes of all political contenders must be known by the people if they are to make an informed choice. Biased reporting and distortions must be avoided at all cost if justice is to be done to the electorate.
The state media is a property of the people and as a state institution it is improper to afford “different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, colour, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such description are not made subject, or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not accorded to persons of another such description.” (Emphasis ours).
This is why it is made imperative in section 208 of the constitution that “All state owned newspapers, journals, radio and television shall afford fair opportunities and facilities for the presentation of divergent views and dissenting opinion.”
No one can deny the fact that GRTS (both radio and television) has undergone transformation this week by persisting in affording fair opportunities and for the presentation of divergent views and dissenting opinions. It covers all three political contestants daily in its news reports. Each contestant is also afforded 10 minutes daily for party political broadcast and 30 minutes daily for highlights of political activities. GRTS has gone further to create the facility for the enlightenment of the voter by conducting a voter education programme involving the Independent Electoral Commission and the National Council for Civic Education. IEC songs in voter education by various Gambian artists are also broadcast by GRTS. One should not also forget the short plays depicting the voter refusing to sell his or her voter’s card.
To conclude, we wish to say bravo to GRTS. You need encouragement to continue the good work you have started. Don’t allow yourselves to be used as propaganda tools.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 75/2006, 8-10 September, 2006
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2006 : 18:51:43
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| It is not only GRTS that the politicians should use, there is nothing like meeting the people. some the of the politicians in gambia forget to go and visit the voters in their own villages and towns. |
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Sep 2006 : 23:16:33
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Congratulation to GRTS for living up to its civic duties.
Peace
Sister Omega |
Peace
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Sep 2006 : 11:37:38
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Reports have emerged that UDP/NRP Campaign have not been featured in the GRTS newscast for three days owing to the arrest of the radio journalist attached to the team. I wonder why Foroyaa did to highlight this. Is this an oversight or a deliberate ploy. I need answers.
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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shaka
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Posted - 11 Sep 2006 : 15:49:53
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| Maybe if you have not left your brains in Dobo, you will realise that Foroyaa is not a daily and at the time of going to the press the GRTS and their journalists were happily broadcasting the UDP/NRP campaigns |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 Sep 2006 : 21:52:48
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It is against my conscience to glorify a yob and I am not going to do it here by responding to you.
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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