All, below is a letter sent to the Daily Observer by Max Njie, in response
to that paper's irresponsible behavior.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou






>From: "Makumba Njie" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>CC: <[log in to unmask]>,<[log in to unmask]>,<[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re; More Gambians arrested in USA
>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:27:47 -0500
>
>Dear Editor,
>
>This letter is in response to your irresponsible article published in your
>paper on Thursday December 12. I just want to point out a few things to
>you. I hope if you are a responsible editor and you will recant your story,
>publish this email and apologise to all the Gambians in the US.
>First of all Madison is a city in the State of Wisconson, it is not a state
>and all the arrests took place in Lexington, Kentucky. Secondly, only one
>of the people arrested was trying to obtain a social security card by
>unlawful means. This person being new, I guess was not even aware of the
>fact that what he was doing was a felony under US laws. The other ten
>people were arrested for overstaying their visas and or working without INS
>authorization. Since you were too lazy to research the facts of this story
>or did not have the means to do so, you should have simply publish my
>entire email without the contact information. You were trying to keep the
>story legit as if you spoke to someone about the story, but your article is
>almost a replica of my email that was forwarded to the Gambia-L.
>
>I am not a journalist and I do not know what your ethical standards are,
>but I guess replicating other people's articles and twisting the facts are
>not ethical. More over your failure to acknowledge the source of the story
>and your attempt to make it like you get your information from a credible
>independent source would also be unethical.
>
>You can also forward this to your friend at the Independent as the story he
>published last week was unfounded and have no credible information.
>
>Thanks
>Max Njie
>Lexington, KY


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