A lie from Office of the President

Mar 17, 2011 Editorial

Each passing day the Office of the President becomes embroiled in acts of dishonesty primarily through people in its employ. The Office of the President is the highest office in the land and it therefore deserves to command the respect it deserves. It is the seat of the person holding the highest office in the land in the body of the President.
Statements from that office are therefore expected to be beyond question. Indeed such is the case because valuable information emanates from that office. Notices of interest to the nation also emanate from Office of the President. Among such notices are invitations to press conferences hosted by the President and by the Cabinet Secretary; accreditations and even some social events like press briefings to explain national matters.
Without a doubt reporters would take any word out of that office without a reservation. Recent events now suggest that reporters should probably question whatever emanates from that office.
Monday evening, based on an interpretation by Press and Publicity Officer in Office of the President, Kwame McCoy issued a statement that was palpably untrue. The press corps is also aware that McCoy is the President’s liaison officer. Most people must go through him to access the president.
If a statement out of the Government Information Agency and Office of the President is to be believed then there was a television newscast that averred to a blog. That newscast, Prime News, contended that the blog is operated by people associated with Office of the President.
McCoy responds by stating that Prime News and Kaieteur News manage the very blog for which people associated with Office of the President have been accused of managing. Blogs are often like diary events in the hands of reputable people.
However, as is always the case, there are people who would take any opportunity to vilify people and to be downright nasty. These people use the blogspot because they see a chance to be nasty and still be able to hide behind their misdeeds. These are the cowards in the society.
No right thinking person would operate a blog to libel and to slander people but he cowards would because they know that they are almost immune from prosecution. No reporter would stoop so low and for sure, Prime News and Kaieteur News have been known to confront their subjects without fear. Both have been known to apologise, publicly, when they are wrong.
For McCoy to suggest that these two media entities operate a blog site is not only dishonest but stupid. Reporters are far too busy ferreting out the news to man blogs. What is more interesting is that it is almost public knowledge that a number of people associated with Office of the President have been manning the blog site in question.
We have been made privy to information through conversation between the bloggers. We read their comments about certain Government Ministers who should be ignored; we read of their pay per blog and we read of the targets to which they were directed.
We recognised the birth of that particular blog site and the similarity of its name to an earlier blog site which folded when it hit the government where it hurt and feared the backlash.
We have been aware of some of the scandalous reports about reporters, including a young woman who happened to be on assignment in Trinidad and was subjected to a scandalous report. We knew who dealt with our objection and caused the offending blog to be pulled. We are also aware of other scandalous things that were subsequently pulled when we made passing reference.
For the President’s spokesperson to attribute the existence of that blog to two media houses critical of some operations of the government is not only dishonest but an attempt to cause people to be wary of reports emanating from the highest office in the land.
We could understand if the response to the Prime News report was issued by an individual. We could understand if there was a serious attempt to divert attention. What we cannot understand is the attempt to tell people that these two media houses that are often critical of the government would not write on solitary criticism about the government and government officials on the blog.
Oh for the liar who seeks to destroy an institution. This time the institution is Office of the President.

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