{"id":24487,"date":"2011-05-31T00:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=24487"},"modified":"2011-05-31T00:15:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:15:21","slug":"deceitful-journalism-used-as-a-camouflage-to-secure-political-appointments-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=24487","title":{"rendered":"Deceitful Journalism used as a camouflage to secure political appointments in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the beginning of the Internet wherein the introduction of e-mail communication became very\u00a0effective, journalists became so impressed and\u00a0jubilant in transforming their news medium on line\u00a0for their readers\u2019\u00a0free consumption. But overall, this type of communication is turning the civilized world to a bleak situation by journalists\u00a0who engage themselves in\u00a0disseminating false, defamatory and deceitful information against targeted individuals because of jealousy, hatred or for\u00a0self-aggrandizement.\u00a0 <em>(Photo:\u00a0 Osman T Conteh, author)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Journalism entails ethics, self esteem and credibility. Therefore, journalists within this jurisdiction should maintain respect within their\u00a0readers and to the arena of journalism. Those out side of this domain fall in the category of disseminating false information against individuals because of being carried away by egoism, lack of self\u00a0esteem and,\u00a0self reliance&#8221;. The world of journalism today has been infiltrated by opportunists and stooges who are not trained or expose to the field of journalism.\u00a0 However, few of journalists are trained and uphold the ethics of journalism and are displaying their unbiased and professional know-how within our Sierra Leone Community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are few\u00a0Sierra Leonean journalists that I do admire for their conformity within the profession and ethics of journalism.\u00a0 They are in the likes of<strong> Mr. Philip Neville of the Standard Times<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Sylvia Blyden of The Awareness Times, Prof. Joseph S.\u00a0Sherman of The\u00a0Salone Monitor, Mr. Gibril Gbanabome Koroma of Patriotic Vanguard, Mr. Sheik Umarr Sesay of The Exclusive, and Mr. Adeyemi Paul of Sierra Express Media<\/strong>. These\u00a0people are\u00a0wonderful writers, they write without sentiment but\u00a0with substance, sometimes\u00a0they surface in critical issues, but most times\u00a0they prevail because they substantiate their work with facts and they try not to be bias also, they\u00a0minimize publishing personal attacks this makes them unique writers. However, those freeloaders \/ freelance writers do write to\u00a0sustain their livelihood \u201cSurvival &#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0Most times they use reckless journalism tactics to\u00a0target individuals with hatred,\u00a0misleading the public against\u00a0productive Leaders\u00a0or individuals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Sierra Leone today, \u00a0members of both political groups suffer from\u00a0tremendous attacks and\u00a0humiliation from these reckless\u00a0Freeloaders \/ Freelance journalists, most of them pretend to be members of the same Party,\u00a0 though\u00a0sometimes they lure attacks on their\u00a0opponent,\u00a0yet still they will\u00a0turn around and attack members <strong>(RISING STARS)<\/strong>\u00a0of their Party because\u00a0of hatred.\u00a0\u00a0 They fail to realize that\u00a0Leadership always comes from God.\u00a0 I hope 2012 will change the attitude and behavior\u00a0of some of our journalists in order for them to regain their respect from the reading public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Osman T. Conteh, PRO\/Political Affairs, The Salone Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of the Internet wherein the introduction of e-mail communication became very\u00a0effective, journalists became so impressed and\u00a0jubilant in transforming their news medium on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,692,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}