Kefa, You mean Ernst was once practicing his trade with the Daily Monitor?
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:53 PM, atibuni kefa <atibu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear Ernest, > I do not presume to know exactly what happened in Gulu the day Arua RDC Maj. > Ibrahim Abriga reportedly made comments about a Peace Prize for Archbishop > John Baptist Odama, but I’m rather touched by your opinion of The Daily > Monitor Newspaper. > In your submission you indicate that The Daily Monitor is not as well a > “paper of record”, something I have found very hard to swallow especially > when you and I know very well that we cut our first tooth in journalism at > this newspaper (the then Monitor) that we are despising today. Is it that > since we left things changed for the worst? What was our level of > contribution when we were at Namuwongo? Are you insinuating that the story > the Daily Monitor carried on Abiriga was erroneous? Did they retract this > story? Even if The Daily Monitor retracted the story it would still not be > such a terrible thing to the extend of reducing the newspaper to “not a paper > of record” because its not an uncommon practice for well established and > reputed publications. For example the Newyork Times, probably one of the most > reputable publications, very often clarifies or in other unusual > circumstances completely retracts erroneous stories. > Ernest, as a senior brother I have always liked you for your rare sense of > frankness when dealing with debatable issues like this one on Major Abiriga > but I really wonder why you had to digress to the Daily Monitor. > By the way at the close of last month old guards of the Daily Monitor were > invited for a dinner to mark 20 years of existence of the newspaper at Hotel > Serena and it was a day of smiles, decorum and pageantry...ask Tabu, he will > tell you more. Some of us where even given medals of outstanding performance > for the work we did a decade ago. I know the RDC would say my medal should > have gone to a chicken……ha..ha…haaahh…. over to you my brother. > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > WestNileNet@kym.net > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________
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