NCN should not be funded by the taxpayers

Apr 28, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
When the leadership at NCN can issue a press releases and attack the actions taken by the majority in the Parliament and claim that the NCN ”exhibited a strong sense of responsibility to the public, by promoting and being involved in all aspects of national development” we didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
But what we did know is that NCN is the biggest joke as a media outlet in Guyana and all Guyanese including PPP supporters and members know this. It is one of, if not the most irresponsible, reckless and biased media outlet in Guyana and the Caribbean. For this reason, it should not be given any money from the taxpayers to peddle the propaganda of only some of its political representatives.
This is both insulting and revolting to all decent Guyanese. The Chairman and his NCN Board of directors got some brass to want to claim that they are a responsible media outlet and should be funded by the taxpayers. What a joke! The Chairman should be aware that he and the NCN board are being laughed at and mocked daily by the people?
We therefore reject this statement from the Board and Management of NCN and advise them most humbly to cease and desist from continuing the “PPP cake-shop” operations that they carry on every day. As soon as the opposition does something, all shape, size, shade and sort of PPP operatives find a seat in the studios of NCN to give only their side of the story.
Where we are trained, that is not the truth; it is called propaganda, distortions and untruths. At the minimum, the people would expect that a responsible media outlet would venture to seek all sides of the story and leaves the information out in the public for the people to form their own judgment or opinion. But it is very sad and regrettable to say that this is not the case with NCN which indulges in the worst form of journalism.
Its practice of the poorest forms of journalism is not only felt and known in Guyana but throughout the Caribbean as well and this has stained the reputation of journalists from Guyana.
Not to mention the giving away of the airwaves to relatives, friends and cronies of the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal. Again, we say what big joke NCN and the cabal have become in eyes of Guyanese and the people of the Caribbean.
The Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal and the NCN Board know about the corruption that took place at NCN but the PPP regime has refused to do anything to correct, change or improve NCN’s poor and corrupt image. President Ramotar has even refused to make public the report on the alleged corrupt practices that forced out two senior personnel at NCN.
The cabal continues to ignore the corrupt practices of their cronies because they believe that the Guyanese people are not in tune and therefore will not see the massive corrupt practices that are taking place every day in all levels of government and have been accepted by the regime.
However, our information reveals that the vast majority of Guyanese do not tune in or listen to NCN because they are tired of hearing the propaganda, distortions, and untruths being peddled constantly by senior PPP officials.
They would also like to hear the voices of members of the opposition and this is called fair and balance reporting. When that happens, only then will NCN qualify for a subvention from the State and the opposition will comply.
So speaking directly to senior officials of NCN; it is high time to work with the new dispensation and open up this jaundiced media to all the politicians and not just PPP operatives. No rational person or government would seek public funds to finance the NCN media outlet that promotes PPP propaganda, distortions, and untruths? How could this corrupt cabal be so barefaced to want to use the taxpayers’ money to finance their media outlet?
Further, it is illegal for them to use the taxpayers’ money to finance PPP projects such as NCN and the Chronicle of Lies which is not even purchased or read by their supporters.
We want to tell the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal that time is not on their side and that the young people are not going to tolerate or accept the poor quality of life for their families; neither will they tolerate the abuse of their families by the PPP dominated media. They are tired of becoming pawns in a futureless Guyana under this regime.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

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