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General News on Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Source: peacefmonline.com
2019-04-30
Editor-in-Chief of Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt
Insight newspaper editor Kwesi Pratt Jnr says Apologies from the Daily Guide's editorial team calling the release of three girls kidnapped from Takoradi "misjudgment" raise more questions only answers.
The Accra-based daily, last Saturday, was published in the screaming editorial "Your Adi Girls Rescued" which "following our publication last Wednesday on the missing Takoradi Girls, additional checks indicate that our conclusion was wrong, our source having confused treatment at the health center for missing girls.
"We sincerely apologize to the families of the girls as well as our esteemed readers for this misjudgment," the Daily Guide report added.
Commenting on the editorial of Radio Gold's talk show "Alhaji and Alhaji", Kwesi Pratt said it was hard to buy the paper's apology by asking if it was "a mistake". made".
"Now, a number of problems arise; First, are we talking about an error of judgment or a mistake of fact? An error of judgment occurs when you misinterpret facts, but an error of fact is simply when the facts are wrong. "
"What are the material facts we are looking for here? Takoradi Girls, were they saved or not? They were not saved. The girls kidnapped by Takoradi, are they in a health center or not? They are not in a health facility.
"…. who are these other girls who are being treated in a health facility? Are there other kidnapped girls we did not know? If there are other kidnapped girls we did not know, when were they kidnapped? Why did we stay in the dark? He asked.
Who are these girls under treatment?
However, he wondered why the police were interested in taking and placing some girls whose identity they did not know in a health center if they were not other girls kidnapped that the public does not know.
"The police do not go to our community by catching girls with malaria or headaches, etc., and put them in a health center to treat them. So, if we are told now that the police may have sent girls to a health facility to treat them, we want to know who these girls are and under what circumstances they have been placed there to receive medical care. ", He stressed.
Feed false information
For him, it is astonishing that journalists from such a well-known private media center, such as the Daily Guide newspaper, can decide to publish an article that is artificial or invented.
"In almost 40 years of practice as a journalist, I have never encountered more than three instances of deliberate and deliberate fabrication. in more than 40 years of practice. So, when you have a case of outright fabrication by a newspaper, it's extraordinary and I do not think the Daily Guide deliberately fabricated this story, "he said.
The experienced journalist estimated that the Accra newspaper was fed by false information and that "to maintain its credibility" it was incumbent on the Daily Guide to reveal who had acted so harshly.
"I firmly believe that someone gave this information … I do not know all the facts; I do not pretend to know all the facts, but I strongly suspect that Daily Guide did not fabricate this story; so someone gave them wrong information. It's in the Daily Guide's own interest to show who gave the wrong information so we can get the right answers … for Daily Guide to build credibility and maintain credibility, it has to do more than just he now has Kwesi Pratt said.
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