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Policy of Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-07-31
Kevin Taylor, presenter of 'With All Due Respect'
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has formally filed a complaint with the New York Times for attempting to damage the reputation of President Akufo-Addo, one of his employees, Taylor's Marisa Schwartz and her husband.
A letter to New York Times African editor Laurie Goodstein accused Taylor of being a photojournalist working for the newspaper and her Ghanaian husband Kevin Taylor of producing a series of video documentaries aimed at to betray the lie against the president and his members. from his government.
Kevin Taylor, through his production company, "Loud Silence", publishes weekly video documentaries called "With All Due Respect" on controversial topics, which are then broadcast on social media platforms.
But in his letter signed by the director of communication, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, the ruling party wants the New York Times to formally and publicly dissociate itself from the work of Loud Silence Media.
The letter insists that this is the first of a series of measures that the NPP will undertake to ensure the reputation of the president, the government and the country.
Read the letter below:
July 26, 2019
LAURIE GOODSTEIN
AFRICA EDITOR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Dear Madam,
LETTER OF COMPLAINT
RE: Productions by Marisa Schwartz Taylor Strong Silence
On behalf of the new patriotic party in Ghana, I formally file a complaint against Ms. Marisa Schwartz Taylor, photo editor at the Washington office of your reputable newspaper, the New York Times.
Over the past 12 months, Ms. Taylor and her husband, Kelvin Taylor, both domiciled in the United States of America, have through their highly partisan and provocative production company, Loud Silence Media, persecuted, denigrated and slandered by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, key members of his government and the ruling party, the new Patriotic Party (NPP).
Under cover of what they claim to be investigative journalism, Ms. Taylor and her husband are publishing each week, through video documentaries broadcast around the world over the Internet, deliberately, recklessly and repeatedly, false unsubstantiated allegations to damage the reputation of our president, his government and Ghana.
Without prejudice to possible defamatory actions against both persons, the NPP decided not to respond directly to the result in order to avoid giving credibility to the reckless and defamatory undertaking. . We are dismayed, however, that Ms. Taylor, co-founder, director, and director of photography at Loud Silence Media, occupies a position as important as your esteemed journal, which covers it with the newspaper's inherent reputation. As a New York Times photo editor, he expects his work, to which he is badociated, to be comprehensive, factual and balanced.
Therefore, we ask the New York Times to formally and publicly dissociate itself from the work of Loud Silence Media. We believe that this will not only dispel the confusion in Ghana over the abusive badociation of the New York Times with Loud Silence Media, but above all to protect the integrity of high value and independent reporting for which the New York Times is recognized.
Below you will find links to some of the results of Loud Silence Media, the production company that is the subject of this complaint.
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/2156629254627425/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/2062628777378120/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/681686265609963/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/385519815647626/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/2362399547342034/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/477598313002459/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/323076228367689/
https://www.facebook.com/LoudSilenceMedia/videos/299351520743538/
Please treat this letter as the first step in a series of steps we will take to ensure that the reputation of our President, our Government and the right person in Ghana is not compromised.
cordially
Yaw Buaben Asamoa,
Director of Communications, BNP
Cc. Dionne Searcey
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