The local media is working under severe pressure and constraints

Nov 05, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Everyone knows how challenging it gets at times for the Guyanese media to fulfill their mandate to disseminate information to the general public.
While many of them have it good, others bend to the pressure and tremble in the presence of whom they are afraid.
But many media houses in Guyana work under severe pressure and constraints on a daily basis. However, they still continue to make Guyanese like myself proud.
I am very pleased, that over the last weekend, the Berbice media performed extraordinarily – given the resources — in the coverage of the accident that took place on the #19 Road on the Corentyne.
Special reference must be made to the newscasts here, especially Newswatch. Continuous updates were aired throughout the weekend by the latter. I must implore our media to keep the public up-to-date with news and developments that take place during weekends. If it is a major news story that cannot wait until the Monday news, then people must hear, see or read about it before that time. The news cycle does not rest; it is always moving.
This brings me to the job that SN has been doing. At the same time, I will offer my support to the newspaper in its recent decision to start charging a fee for access to web- related content of its newspaper from December 1 of this year.
It really has not been an easy ride for this respected journalistic publication, of which I see myself a small part of.
Stabroek News has been penalized and victimized by those in the power spaces so much that the paper finds it mandatory to implement measures that would ensure its survival and continued service to the reading public.
TV programme guides are no longer available in this newspaper because, I presume, it is not cost-effective anymore to print, since those listings were published for free.
And State advertisements are no longer published in the papers since all have been placed on the government tendering website.
Kaieteur News has been publishing a few State ads for free on a daily basis for a few weeks now. This, I am sure, is costing that paper hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I wonder how long it would go on for. Even though Kaieteur News has made that offer to the Government, there has been no reaction so as to revert to the former arrangement, to close the procurement website down and re- advertise with the newspapers. It won’t happen.
Leon Suseran

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