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NCN admits knowing Kissoon’s attacker

May 26, 2010 News

The National Communications Network (NCN) has taken umbrage at a headline carried in yesterday’s issue of Kaieteur News. The headline proclaimed ‘Fecal matter thrown in Freddie Kissoon’s face — NCN claims to know attacker’
“We believe such a headline is distorting and does not reflect the essence of what was reported in our late edition on Monday, May 24, 2010,” NCN reported in a press statement.
The news agency stated that the story it carried “pointed solely to the incident which we have since condemned.” Presenting that story was Edward Layne.
The NCN statement reported that the account was based on an “eyewitness account of what allegedly transpired.” That eyewitness allegedly told NCN that Kissoon’s attacker had muttered something about Kissoon making a pass at his daughter and that he became angry.
“We carried this account only after having it corroborated,” NCN stated.
Yesterday, Editor of Kaieteur News, Adam Harris, said that there was a lot wrong with the NCN news report. It stated that Kissoon’s attacker drove up to the columnist and carried out the attack. The truth was that Kissoon had walked to his vehicle and had just sat down and lowered the window when the attack came from a man who walked up to the car, he said.
Kissoon reported that after the attack the man ran north along Light Street and boarded a vehicle that had been parked on the Merriman Mall. For the eyewitness to see something different from what actually happened is rather strange and questions the credibility of the eyewitness, Harris added.
Harris then said that NCN did even better than the eyewitness when in its statement it announced that it was able to corroborate what the eyewitness said.
“With whom could there have been corroboration? Other eyewitnesses? NCN is saying that it met with the perpetrator of the act on Freddie Kissoon and this perpetrator corroborated what the eyewitness said.”
NCN, through its editor Michael Gordon, goes on to talk about misrepresentation. “To know the identity of the individual who carried out the attack, is simply to misrepresent what we reported. Such reports and especially headlines, like the attack itself, flies in the face of the very pillars on which ethical journalism stand,” Gordon stated.
“We urge our media colleagues to ply our trade in a most responsible manner and to divorce ourselves from attempts to lure us into practices that berate our profession,” said NCN. But to carry a report that was palpably false “flies in the face of the very pillars on which ethical journalism stand,” Harris said.

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