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 _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~