Apr. 15, 2013
by Lekan Abayomi
NewsRescue- It's all over the news now. MEND terrorists in south Nigeria promise to start a bombing campaign against Muslims by May 31st. NewsRescue received this bit of information, but after our usual round-house email consultation, as with similar advertisements for terrorists, we decided not to publish.
Unfortunately, other media houses in Nigeria and indeed abroad, as bloomberg among others took part in the crime, eager to gain reads, attention, relevance and ad money, quickly published this cheap advertisement message from a self acclaimed terrorist.
This is the sad and death bringing state of journalism in Nigeria. And the government of Nigeria is wholly to blame for the hopelessness of our journalism as with all other institutions in Nigeria, because as was released yesterday, while cutting for themselves the largest earning checks in the world, with Nigerian law-makers earning N24m/$180,000 per month, with their pockets laden with the peoples money, they fail to take care of the business of running the state, including correcting deadly media practices like this. This is why we say, the government along with the media are the worst terrorists in Nigeria.
In January 2012, NewsRescue published "Stop Giving Boko Haram Media Coverage!" It was a desperate call and cry for the media to stop being free advertisement tools of terror. Read more: http://newsrescue.com/the-media-and-government-are-nigerias-worst-terrorists/
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