NCN holds the nation to ransom

Apr 29, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
NCN on Thursday attempted to hold the nation to ransom by withdrawing services in Linden and mobilizing some of its loyal staff and sympathizers to make a passionate plea to the opposition not to cut the subvention of 81 million.
They went overboard it trying to whip up public support with all kinds of nonsensical reasons why NCN should continue to operate as if they are accountable to no one.
The Guyanese people are no fools, the orchestrated ploy of playing several clips of partisan support over and over, regularly interrupting the cricket to ensure that they had an audience does not reflect the views of the majority. This was a deliberate attempt to brainwash people of lesser intelligence and is a method often used by communist stations such as those in Cuba and North Korea.
In an effort to scare the nation and drive fear into people’s minds we were told how poor people were going to suffer and many jobs were going to be lost by an organization that recently boasted that it earned ninety percent of its revenue on its own.
To see the CEO along with the news editor Michael Gordon and Martin Goolsaran making this tearful plea to the opposition to retract their position was amusing. They reminded me of “the Three Stooges”.
Michelle Abraham Ali who was at the forefront of this brainwashing charade has lost all credibility as a broadcaster, I’m surprised at her.
Many of those broadcasters who sin their souls in a effort to show loyalty by promulgating the Government’s views and disregarding any others in a balanced way, might suffer the same fate as Clem David when he used to host a call in programme called “ action line” back during the Burnham era.
Any caller who dared to criticize the Government was treated with disdain, insulted and most times cut off. We see the same trend emerging at NCN.
When the PNC government changed he was like a lost soul and it was left up to CN Sharma to try and restore some credibility to this obviously talented individual.
It never happened!
Not once was the opposition’s position of fairness or balance addressed in all of NCN’s ranting.
May I Remind NCN that the opposition gained fifty two percent of the votes at the last election and as a result their views must be heard on NCN as well as the government’s if they are to be truly a national station.
One only has to listen to a newscast on NCN and you see what I am talking about, you would believe it was produced directly from the Office of the President or Freedom House.
The CEO of NCN is an accountant by profession and does not have a broadcasting background and as such in not qualified to head a broadcasting entity.
It is perceived that he was brought back to restructure NCN in such a way that almost entirely the Government’s views and only the government’s views are reflected. Mr Sattaur like his fellow propagandist Prem Misir, are US citizens brought back to serve without morals.
If the goverment ever changes they will be among the first to “high tail it”out of Guyana.
Michael Anthony

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