Fellow Chitijens,
The tricky question, in a functional democracy, is: how do you best protect your freedom?
The unexpected answer is: by fighting tooth and nail to protect that of those with whom you disagree ideologically! This is one of the reasons it why it is absolutely critical to protect the rights of minorities.
I agree that Uganda has a poor excuse for a journalist corp. Apart from being an unprofessional lot (who is in Uganda?); many are in Mu7s pocket. But thats the way of megalomaniacal power hungry tin-pot dictators.
Now, I am no great fan of the Monitor because they are anti-Baganda and, to add insult to injury, pro-Obote. However, if their right to air their nonsense were threatened Id like to think that Id be among the first to announce that it is wrong to deprive them of their right.
Likewise, in the case of Monitor Radio, me thinks wed all be foolish to start dancing on their graves even though the immediate cause was UPC stalwart Mwendwa. This may be construed as stupidity, weakness, etc, but it is the right moral stand. There is a small probability that, in time, our political opponent will come to see the advantage of such a standard.
People, we should all agree on a minimum set of rights that accrue to us just because we are human beings. Otherwise cynical politicians, who are well aware of the benefits of divide-and-rule, (a.k.a. wedge issues) will die in the State House.
Any one who has listened to Amin and then to Museveni when he spoke to the media on the Garang issue, would hard pressed to tell the difference. Mu7 went native, forgot that we have a constitution (his actually), and that we even have a judiciary, rule of law, etc. I had the misfortune to listen to his harangue. Yuck!!
WB Kyijomanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Moderator:
The message is that The Monitor is paying for its duplicity.
Like I said, KFM will open very soon because the Agakhan is very powerful and YKM needs him. Whether it will be the same faces, it is another story. Remember what the Republicans did to Dan Rather at CBS? The NRMO will do to some faces at the Monitor/KFM.
The NYT is very clear and everyone knows where it stands. It is as predictable politicall as sure days follows night. The NYT never pretends. In Uganda it is the opposite, papers pretend when in fact they mean the exact opposite.
Consider the way the Monitor set up poor VP Bukenya. That is what I mean by its duplicity. Yes, "ekizimba kakyabiike".
WBK
>From: Karoli Ssemogerere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [DPNet] Government moves to close KFM
>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:31:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>WBK,
>
>I am sorry I don't understand the import of this
>message. Remember the devil that is striking at your
>opponent will be the same to rape and kill your mother
>and offspring. In the end-game, there are no rules but
>simply implosion.
>
>In Zimbabwe, the Catholic Church stood by while
>Ndebeles were massacred in the 1980s and have lived to
>tell the tale. In this end game even the right to be
>poor like the slum dwellers in Harare found out is not
>absolute,
>
>We have all been critical of media content in the
>past; but that is not a license to shut down the
>media; let the marketplac e determine that:
>
>If you read Observer today, you will be shocked given
>the coverage they used to have a few months ago
>courtesy of a few economic subsidies from No. 1; and
>access; you will completely miss Semujju's pieces on
>DP's death and wrangles.
>
>Monitor may be an FDC mouthpiece but so is the NYT as
>a one of the liberal establishment and NY Post/Fox
>serving the conservatives. In the same vein Citizen
>became a mass tabloid serving millions in Uganda even
>though it was a DP mouthpiece.
>
>Sometimes the idealist and the pragmatist have to
>meet; err on the side of freedom not anarchy,
>
>Karoli.
>
>
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