Friday, July 30, 2010

Fault of the Stigma?

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Frankly, this TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. The Voice CANNOT take refuge in the claim that it has given equal prominence to the charges and counter-charges by Cherry and the Manager of the BTC respectively.

The Voice should accept, that like Timothy Poleon, Juke Bois and others who carried the original story that it committed an egregious error and that it breached the basic principles of journalism when it published Cherry's allegations without itself attempting to verify the facts. Why did the Voice give such credibility to Cherry that it did not even see it fitting to get the other side of the story from the BTC? Nowhere in the original story is there any indication that efforts had been made to contact the BTC; nowhere is there any indication that the story was based on unconfirmed reports. Cherry's account was taken at "face value". The Voice should henceforth heed Shakespeare's admonition that "...there is no art to find the mind's construction in the one'e face."

Unless the voice can prove that the Manager of the BTC is lying, then I believe the Voice should do the decent thing and give the management and wards of BTC an unreserved apology.

CSI

July 31, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Anonymous said...

I agree with CSI - and further, The Voice should pay a visit to the BTC to see for themselves HOW the BTC is run, and the state it is in. By "state", I mean, if it is well managed, how the Wards are coping ... give a TRUTHFUL story.

If things were so bad at the BTC, it is doubtful that CSI would make a humanitarian contribution, or even The Landings for that matter, offer their services to the Centre. Other contributors would have made the public aware of any atrocities being carried out at the Centre ... don't you think so?

July 31, 2010 at 7:56 PM

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