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Readers: The following is a disclaimer posted on www.stabroeknews.com

April 23, 2008

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“We reserve the right to edit/delete comments for length, any libel and taste. We moderate all comments so be patient while your message waits to be approved.”
POSTED ON WWW.STABROEKNEWS.COM

When freedom of speech and press is being filtered by a national news print, one has to wonder about the quality of journalism produced and about the journalistic philosophies of the executives and reporters at stabroeknews? Can this print actually justify themselves in any qualitiative depth as to the whom they serve? This is censorship in one of its most vivid forms and it is alive and well at stabroek news.

Andrew - The Baiganchoka Team

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13 Responses to “Readers: The following is a disclaimer posted on www.stabroeknews.com”

  1. Mr. Shiva B on April 23rd, 2008 5:02 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    It seems the newspaper is only interested in their freedom of speech and not anyone else. This is so sad that a national newspaper of the country is willing to post something like that on their site.

  2. Andrew on April 23rd, 2008 7:16 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I cannot imagine anyone wanting to read stabroek news after being enlightened by getting a glimpse into the the actual inner workings of this tabloid print. I am actually disappointed in myself for not reading the fine print earlier.The disclaimer by Stabroek news should work as a reinforcement as to why blogs and necessary and vital to information dissemination.

  3. Annand on April 23rd, 2008 8:19 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    They are not the only one. Other Guyana blog sites who are critical of the government on freedom of the press also moderate user comments.

  4. Andrew on April 23rd, 2008 8:53 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Annand, do you have proof to your claims?

  5. Annand on April 23rd, 2008 11:10 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Proof? Are you serious?? Start with Living Guyana blog - try posting a comment and then you tell me. But this you already know.

  6. Andrew on April 24th, 2008 5:06 am  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    What I was speaking about was an overt rather than a covert censorship. I am well aware of your imbroglio with living Guyana. This is why it is critically important to have avenues of free speach and press. The avenues are extremely narrow in Guyana. lets remind ourselves of CN Sharma’s conflict with Jagdeo and Jagdeo

  7. kim on April 29th, 2008 2:03 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    ok breathe easy..all ‘mainstream’ media moderate comments before posting them. moderate does not necessarily cut and paste your comments but they all do it…including all the ones in the USA and all the other verbal champions of freedoms

  8. Andrew on April 29th, 2008 6:32 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I am well aware of the policies of CNN, MSNBC FOX etc . But the choices are not as limiting in the US as to where we get our info..In Guyana the situation is quite different,..Infomation distribution is very limiting, hence, the need to be just..In the USA, BBC and Reuters are well in line as to qualitative journalism..Try posting a comment on any blog on Reuters,,

  9. kim on May 3rd, 2008 6:37 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    so stabroek should open their letter c oloumns and make it a big free for all?
    can’t say that i am a supporter of stabroek, but let me tell you, in Guyana you better moderate what comes in or you end up like the Chronicle where letters are published with such exquisite titles as ‘citizen’, ‘JR’, ‘fed up’ or just no exquisite title at all…and i won’t get into the letter contents

  10. Andrew on May 3rd, 2008 7:33 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    The question is, who are your readers? It’s Citizen, JR and fed up .. So if these three individuals read and decide to go the additional step to share their opinions. then so be it,,..Giving people a vested interest and a platform to initiate free thought..will only work to heal a broken Guyana. It’s the same reason why psychologists are in business…to listen….By having people involved in the current affairs of the Guyana, they will more than likely be more involved in the political and economical systems at play,.On Biaganchoka.com you are “Kim”…Is it not the same a s Citizen, JR and fed up… and you are free to share at will…no…In retrospect, you’ve come a long way as to the nature of comments you leave…..It;s the same Kim..If you initiate intellectual dialect, you will get the desired effect you seek…B. F. Skinner provides insight through his work in operant conditioning on achieving desired effects through consistent behavioral reinforcements
    Andrew

  11. sunil b on May 4th, 2008 8:03 am  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    Kim seems like she’s debating for the sake of a debate. Yes, I believe any avenue of where we get our news will change a title to catch a reader’s eye, and move some of the body here and there for structural and grammatical purpose.
    Here is where Andrew was trying to make his point about news in Guyana where it just flew over her head: unlike us here in America, those living in Guyana are faced with limited sources of where they can get information.
    People sending in articles and comments (in Guyana and any other country for that matter) have their names attached to their message. For a paper to take someone’s work and change the message the writer is trying to send to readers is wrong. In the end, the writer’s message was changed, which we cannot agree with. To make an article an eye-catcher is one thing, but that is not the case with Starbroek news articles.

  12. kim on May 7th, 2008 12:26 am  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    hello Sunil have you ever been in a news room? I know people at all three papers in Guyana and have been to all three many diff times. no one. repeat. no one. not even the Chronicle rearrange or rewrite what people send in. what they do is if you made two critical points of Jagdeo and your third point is you heard Jagdeo was with a man in San Fernando, they will delete that cause thery cannot verify that and it is not an opinion. plus they could get sued as well. so no newspaper in Guyana just prints stuff someone sends in without going it over and they don’t print stuff in the papers in the US either without going it over and yes! they will delete what they don’t like and publish what they like. just call up your local paper and ask the editor they will tell you
    i take it with this angle all of you are against Jagdeo taking away Sharma’s tv licence

  13. Kevin Ramsaroop on May 8th, 2008 11:53 pm  Vote: Add rating 0  Subtract rating 0  

    I take it you agree with Jagdeo’s ruling Kim? What’s your take on his ruling?

    Why is everyone wrapped so tight around political blogs? It’s perfectly okay to “stand up for your rights” but there are other issues as well. Issues surrounding the government and freedom of the press and everything in that vein is not going anywhere. We are always going to have the government doing something the pople does not like regarding freedom of the press - that’s just how it is.

    I see there’s a blog on Global Food Crisis and no one is getting uptight about it. People are starving! There are riots! And yes, I am full aware that people have always been starving. I’m just saying, why not focus on the other issues as well instead of rubbing each other’s back…

    Would you say that either of on the newspapers in Guyana is politically biased?

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