Sister Jabou,
Thanka you so much for that very concise bit. I too find the Observer's methods to be of utter poor taste. But perhaps one can forgive them for stealing people's opinion since they seem to have run out of ideas. It is a shame that the Observer finds nothing to write about the consuming darkness into which ever increasing numbers of Gambian families are being consigned to.
Besides, I really hope that they would summon the intellectual courage to tell Mr. Ebou Jallow that the Gambia-L to which he referred to as a dwindling infantile signpost on the Internet, is the very place they themselves have seen only too fit to plagiarize articles from. That should definitely be a turn-around given that the Observer relished giving interview space to a man most Gambians would remember as a psychopathic common thief desperately īn need of social rehabilitation.
Cheers,
Momodou S Sidibeh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jabou Joh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: Daily Observer/ Re: my post to the L !!!
> In a message dated 12/14/2002 11:19:16 AM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > BTW, the Friday Dec.13 edition of the paper has, in the Letters to the
> > Editor section, Jabou Joh's note accompanying her forwarded article to the
> > Gambia-L of December 9th entitled 'Beware of the new Quran' which gives the
> > impression that Jabou's note was a letter written to the editor of the
> > paper.
> >
> > Sidi Sanneh
>
> Sidi,
>
> Thanks for letting me know about this. It is pathetic that this sort of thing
> goes on with people who are supposed to be professionals in their field and
> one would think they would know and abide by the rules of journalism, and
> would want to have professional pride in their abilities to collect and
> present information properly.
>
> Well, it does not pay to plagiarize information because I am sure that after
> pasting my email to the L on the pages of their newspaper, the Observer did
> not take time to go back and plagiarize the follow up posting to the L on the
> same topic. I hope they will go collect that follow-up too and print it, and
> if they have any professional integrity, they will also print an apology to
> all of the people whose emails they printed without their knowledge and
> consent, and which they did not bother to identify as not their own.
>
> WILL THE OBSERVER PRINT THE RESPONSE FROM THE PEOPLE WHOSE EMAILS THEY
> PRINTED BY COLLECTING THEISE RESPONSES FROM THE SAME SOURCE, NAMELY THE L. IT
> REMAINS TO BE SEEN.
>
> Jabou Joh
>
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