Not exact matches
The family and
friends of murdered American
journalist James Foley have gathered in his home town to remember him and pray for
other hostages in Iraq.
As for bloggers and
journalists, sometimes they'll be rivals, sometimes they'll be
friends (with or without benefits), and sometimes they'll take cheap shots at each
other.
Some of my
friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian
journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of
other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.
His political opponents and even hawks on the
other side felt comfortable dealing with him to the extent that people perceived as architects of Npp diabolic operations including known Npp inclined
journalists saw him as a brother, a
friend and
others a comrade.One may ask, what went into that magic moves.In opposition he was one character whose communication skills helped shape the philosophy of the party.The boldness he exhibited in the media and his principled approach to issues reshape the philosophy of the party.
I write «
JOURNALIST» in caps not because I seek to unfairly glorify the profession above
others, even though we are the Fourth Estate of the realm so - called; a position that bestows on us the power to make or break; a very critical role that earns us foes and
friends across the social class, relatively more foes from elites and the political class.
In essence, it's about being professional and taking care, which means don't: agree to meet alone; allow over-familiarity; give out your personal mobile number; meet informally outside working hours and away from your organisation's premises (and certainly don't do so without getting formal approval); allow too frequent contact or over familiarity that may be acceptable with
friends, colleagues and family but not from people with whom you only have a commercial relationship; discuss your private life, or social or recreational interests of you or your partner; accept offers, discounts or
other services or products by the client, customer or contractor; accept hospitality or gifts that you yourself wouldn't pay for from your own pocket; and don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, obligated or might be open to misinterpretation or might be difficult to explain to your manager, a
journalist or an investigator.
Quoting Phil Shabecoff (and for good measure, one of Gelbspan's
other Facebook
Friends, Society of Environmental
Journalists» Christy George),
In our Office's experience from past investigations, there is a difference between having information available to those who explicitly seek it out directly from source websites for specific purposes (for example, a lawyer doing jurisprudential research in CanLII or a
journalist seeking out past articles on a given issue), and, the same information being «stumbled upon» or «fished out» by a snooping
friend, colleague, neighbor or
other acquaintance through a simple query search by an individual's name.