The state media have become PPP mouthpieces - WPA

The state media have become PPP mouthpieces – WPA

Jul 20, 2011 News

The Working People’s Alliance, one of the partners in A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has issued a call for “all fair minded Guyanese to boycott the Guyana Chronicle and to take with a barrel of salt the PPP political propaganda of the National Communications Network”.
The call comes in the wake of what the party sees as the ongoing and escalating abuse of the state media by the PPP. The party said that the issue is so outrageous that it would appear that there is no longer even the pretence at fairness.
“We also urge citizens to register their disgust by flooding those entities with calls and emails. The time has come for Guyanese to be pro-active in their collective interest,” the WPA said.
“The state media have become PPP mouthpieces, nothing else. Nowhere else in the hemisphere is a ruling party so shamelessly using the state media to advance its narrow agenda,” the party added.
According to the WPA, the PPP/C government has moved beyond simply giving itself more coverage than the opposition. It is 100% coverage of the ruling party and its doings, and zero percent of the opposition parties.
The WPA said that both the state-owned electronic and print media feel free to distort the views of others, to slander opposition members, and silence their voices.
In the process, the WPA stated, it has shown little respect for the dignity of the reporters in the state media who, to keep their jobs, “must spew the lies and vomit they are handed down from above”.
The WPA noted that while all other media houses covered the recent launch of APNU, the Guyana Chronicle, for example, ignored the event.
“According to the Chronicle, it did not happen. Instead, it used its pages to repeat word for word the PPP’s self-serving propaganda about the reopening of the Claims and Objection period. The WPA views this crude behaviour as inconsistent with the norms of a civilized society and a gross violation of the fundamental right of Guyanese people to be properly informed by a media financed by taxpayers’ money. This is part and parcel of the official corruption that is the hallmark of this regime,” the WPA declared.
The party said that the right to be informed is a sacred right, guaranteed by the Constitution of Guyana. “The right to benefit from that which you own is another sacred right. The use of media that are owned by all of the people for the benefit of a small clique while denigrating and marginalizing the legitimate representatives of some of the people cannot be allowed to continue without some demonstration of indignation,” the party noted.

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