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 Re: العدالة للجميع (Re: GeerTor Tong)
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Geer,
Salamat.
Freedom of press in South Sudan is in its infancy but by any objective standard is by far the best there is in the entire region. However, the Government of South Sudan is finding out that fighting for freedom is a lot easier than maintaining it. On one hand, the Khartoum-based and Khartoum-grown Southern elite is adamant that the four-year old Goss applies fully and unambiguously the principles of free and unimpeded public press (John Milton) and on the other- and this may be a sheer killing instinct-, the very notion that a group of self-righteous and loquacious pundits with axes to grind can over flourish the principles of free debate and press and expect to walk unscathed while rolling in the same mine fields with everyone else is a bit of a strech.
Alfred Taban, Nhial Deng, Moiga Ndoro, Suzana Alfonsin are regulars on SSTV Press Forum and Let Us Know and while objective and professional in most instances, they waste no chance of assailing the GoSS on their weekly appearances on SSTV and on their papers. The only time I ever saw the dismissive Nhial Bol ever behaved like a professionally trained journalist was during the live broadcast last week with Dr. El Turabi. In fact, his questions were leading and soft and could not stop nodding in agreement with El Shiekh El Turabi. He recently expressed his dismay, on a live TV, over Alfred Taban’s decision to run for the Governorship of Central Equatoria because, he wondered, what would he be “doing with people who don’t know how to write and read” This is the problem brother Geer. Some of us think that they are too educated to be working for or working with some of those who sacrificed everything for whatever little freedom there is. Difference between the Juba-based press and the one in Kharoum is day and night. We all shall work toward improving it.
(عدل بواسطة Zakaria Joseph on 09-17-2009, 03:38 PM)
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Zakaria Joseph
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