Haruna, I thought so as well. OJ will do more good by responding
positively to a newspaper rather than quarelling with them. I also
wonder why some of our politicians think that, in this age of media
engagements, they should be babysit and ask like monks.
suntou

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanx Suntou for sharing. I encourage Hon. OJ to take The Gambia Journal up
> on their offer to convey OJ's Tobaski message to his constituents. I further
> encourage OJ to correct the record of the article in the Journal of which he
> had taken umbrage. The most valuable way to correct errors in a newspaper is
> for the same newspaper to publish the correction citing the culprit article.
> It will not be valuable for OJ to be so angry at the newspaper that he
> neglects to correct her error.
> Haruna.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: suntou touray <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 8:11 am
> Subject: OJ V The GambiaJournal. An interesting exchange
>
> www.thegambiajournal.com
> O.J. pissed off with The Gambia Journal
> 29 November, 2009 05:20:00
> Font size:
> A Gambia Journal editor who called veteran politician, former Minister
> in the Jawara administration, leader of the defunct former ruling PPP
> party and member of the NADD executive Omar Jallow, ran into a verbal
> showdown with him leading to Mr. Jallow hanging the phone on him. It
> was on Wednesday November 25, 2009 at about 10:30 that Mr. Jallow was
> called and invited to give a message through the online journal to the
> Gambians at home and in the Diaspora on the occasion of the Muslim
> feast of Eid al Adha, or Tobaski. Mr. Jallow asked the editor to call
> back, since he was then with some people.
> The Gambia Journal had called other figures of the Gambian opposition
> offering them chance to deliver messages to their constituencies. When
> the editor called about two and a half hours later, Mr. Jallow sounded
> brusque and haughty and blamed the Gambia Journal for “tarnishing his
> image” two years ago for asking if rumors then circulating of his
> crossing over to the ruling APRC party were true. The editor admitted
> that yes it was The Gambia Journal that published that in an
> editorial, but said it was a question, not a definitive statement.
> “Why didn’t you contact me to verify before you published it?” The
> editor answered that they tried to but could not come through. Mr.
> Jallow reacted that it could not be true as everybody who wanted to
> get to him got through. The Gambia Journal editor insisted that they
> did try but could not get to him.
> The editor explained that after the publication, a friend of O.J.’s
> resident in the United, did called and protested O.J.’s innocence and
> was told that he was invited to write and refute the story on The
> Gambia Journal site. But according to the editor ”Mr. Omar Jallow was
> not listening, he was going on and on and on trying so hard to
> establish what he has done for Gambia and the times he went to jail
> when Jawara was in England. I was able to get my words through to him
> when he paused to take in some oxygen, the editor said. Mr. Jallow
> said Mr. Sankara of The Gambia Echo forwarded him the article when he
> was in Nigeria and he gave his side of the story to the Gambia Echo.
> Mr. Jallow said that he was disappointed because he thought we were
> all on the same camp.
> When he finally quiet down, I told him that it is evident that there
> is a difference between our paper and him, but he has a constituency
> to talk to and if he is still interested in talking to that
> constituency? Mr. Jallow said he doesn’t trust us and hung up.
> The Gambia Journal still stands by our editorial but that being said,
> we will also not stop trying to respectfully reach out to Mr. Omar
> Jallow for him to talk to his constituency.
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