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		<title>By: gap1</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/07/19/freedom-of-the-press-is-not-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-14156</link>
		<dc:creator>gap1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ohhh but It is! It is worth our time!

And your dear Jagdeo could pretty much take to it the bank that we have already invested far less time in this Moseley ban than we should have originally when the story broke. Now we are awake and aware! Now your Jagdeo gets to be even more famous, or is it infamous than his ego could ever imagine! 

Starting from way back before the 2006 elections, your dear Jagdeo has been making a name for himself. What if overseas Guyanese really start to highlight his misdeeds to the rest of the world? What if! What if! What if??????????!!!!!!!!

The president of Guyana is paid to serve the people of Guyana, not the other way around. Unless he forgets and thinks himself King, the press is always here to make certain that he remains there, in that role: A servant of the people!

Did you or your president think that he was ever more or beyond that? How presumptous of him....of you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ohhh but It is! It is worth our time!</p>
<p>And your dear Jagdeo could pretty much take to it the bank that we have already invested far less time in this Moseley ban than we should have originally when the story broke. Now we are awake and aware! Now your Jagdeo gets to be even more famous, or is it infamous than his ego could ever imagine! </p>
<p>Starting from way back before the 2006 elections, your dear Jagdeo has been making a name for himself. What if overseas Guyanese really start to highlight his misdeeds to the rest of the world? What if! What if! What if??????????!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>The president of Guyana is paid to serve the people of Guyana, not the other way around. Unless he forgets and thinks himself King, the press is always here to make certain that he remains there, in that role: A servant of the people!</p>
<p>Did you or your president think that he was ever more or beyond that? How presumptous of him&#8230;.of you!</p>
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		<title>By: rupman</title>
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		<dc:creator>rupman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doesn&#039;t anybody feel that Mr moseley&#039;s tone of his release was rather aggressive and disrespectful, taking into consideration that he was referring to the PRESIDENT OF GUYANA?
I am certain that Mr Moseley, being the PROFESSIONAL that he is supposed to be could have toned his response better and probably achieved much more than being ultra agressive.
Wonder if he sent a letter about Enrico Woolford with similar venom if he would still be a Capitol News employee?
And its not as if he&#039;s been banned from being a reporter. It&#039;s just that his privelege to attend press conferences at OP has been removed. 
Come on Guyanese press, you had a right to protest about the ads with SN and with CH6. But this thing with Moseley is not worth your time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t anybody feel that Mr moseley&#8217;s tone of his release was rather aggressive and disrespectful, taking into consideration that he was referring to the PRESIDENT OF GUYANA?<br />
I am certain that Mr Moseley, being the PROFESSIONAL that he is supposed to be could have toned his response better and probably achieved much more than being ultra agressive.<br />
Wonder if he sent a letter about Enrico Woolford with similar venom if he would still be a Capitol News employee?<br />
And its not as if he&#8217;s been banned from being a reporter. It&#8217;s just that his privelege to attend press conferences at OP has been removed.<br />
Come on Guyanese press, you had a right to protest about the ads with SN and with CH6. But this thing with Moseley is not worth your time.</p>
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		<title>By: miltonbruce</title>
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		<dc:creator>miltonbruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stop it Misir you are breaking my heart and insulting my intelligence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stop it Misir you are breaking my heart and insulting my intelligence.</p>
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		<title>By: Carl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The government&#039;s sycophants and jesters always seem to confuse their audiences whenever they decide to defend the indefensible actions of their benefactors. Why does Prem Misir believe that he can convince the sensible reading public with his cow pasture arguments about the SN advertisement and the George Mosley issues? Does he really believe that the overwhelming majority of SN readers are head-in-the-sand card-carrying members of the PPP?

Prem Misir, get real.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The government&#8217;s sycophants and jesters always seem to confuse their audiences whenever they decide to defend the indefensible actions of their benefactors. Why does Prem Misir believe that he can convince the sensible reading public with his cow pasture arguments about the SN advertisement and the George Mosley issues? Does he really believe that the overwhelming majority of SN readers are head-in-the-sand card-carrying members of the PPP?</p>
<p>Prem Misir, get real.</p>
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		<title>By: cochore</title>
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		<dc:creator>cochore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This Misir dude is an ideologue of the worst kind, because he belives in defending people, their behavior and lies but not profound principles or scholarship. Existing facts and circumstances already in the public domain means nothing when it comes to defending certain individuals behavior. This sure sounds like  qualifications for being a sleazy lawyer and not Guyana&#039;s mouth piece.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This Misir dude is an ideologue of the worst kind, because he belives in defending people, their behavior and lies but not profound principles or scholarship. Existing facts and circumstances already in the public domain means nothing when it comes to defending certain individuals behavior. This sure sounds like  qualifications for being a sleazy lawyer and not Guyana&#8217;s mouth piece.</p>
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		<title>By: La vie est bonne!</title>
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		<dc:creator>La vie est bonne!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s shameful and disgusting that a resonably intelligent person would defend the poistion of this regime. Don&#039;t Misir have more important things to do but to defend the inexcusable actions of this regime? I guess not!
Misir do you ever wonder why caricom disrespects Guyanese?
It&#039;s because of this regime&#039;s behaviour... it&#039;s abhorrent.
They are telling the Guyanese people if you can live under this dictatorship and accept that treatment... we &quot;caricom&quot; certainly don&#039;t respect you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s shameful and disgusting that a resonably intelligent person would defend the poistion of this regime. Don&#8217;t Misir have more important things to do but to defend the inexcusable actions of this regime? I guess not!<br />
Misir do you ever wonder why caricom disrespects Guyanese?<br />
It&#8217;s because of this regime&#8217;s behaviour&#8230; it&#8217;s abhorrent.<br />
They are telling the Guyanese people if you can live under this dictatorship and accept that treatment&#8230; we &#8220;caricom&#8221; certainly don&#8217;t respect you.</p>
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		<title>By: guyanesestarfish</title>
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		<dc:creator>guyanesestarfish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if the president ask prem misir or any minister to jump in demerara river they would jump with no hesitation. these ministers don’t have visions, stamina, courage and supervision qualities.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if the president ask prem misir or any minister to jump in demerara river they would jump with no hesitation. these ministers don’t have visions, stamina, courage and supervision qualities.</p>
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		<title>By: justice4all</title>
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		<dc:creator>justice4all</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why don&#039;t Misir and others cite the particular portions of Mosley&#039;s letters that were disrespectful. The president is not a King, and thus is not above reproach by any member of the citizenry.
 
These sycophants, regardless of any academic qualifications they may have attained, continue to exhibit the most obtuse and innane streams of reasonings imaginable. It is sad to acknowledge that this is a representation of the intellect making national decisions in our nation. May God help us.

Capitol news need to compile a dossier of its Antigua Presidential report, the Presidents response, its reporter Mosley&#039;s letter, GINA&#039;s explanation for the ban, and this letter from Misir, and present them before the international association of journalists for examination and maybe a C-SPAN forum deliberation. The silliness and arrogance of these people need to be exposed before the wider world. One eye man can only be king in a blind mans land.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why don&#8217;t Misir and others cite the particular portions of Mosley&#8217;s letters that were disrespectful. The president is not a King, and thus is not above reproach by any member of the citizenry.</p>
<p>These sycophants, regardless of any academic qualifications they may have attained, continue to exhibit the most obtuse and innane streams of reasonings imaginable. It is sad to acknowledge that this is a representation of the intellect making national decisions in our nation. May God help us.</p>
<p>Capitol news need to compile a dossier of its Antigua Presidential report, the Presidents response, its reporter Mosley&#8217;s letter, GINA&#8217;s explanation for the ban, and this letter from Misir, and present them before the international association of journalists for examination and maybe a C-SPAN forum deliberation. The silliness and arrogance of these people need to be exposed before the wider world. One eye man can only be king in a blind mans land.</p>
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		<title>By: vatvic</title>
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		<dc:creator>vatvic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From: 
Hélène-Marie Gosselin Director, UNESCO Office to the United Nations New York World Press Freedom Day May 3 2006. 

&quot;UNESCO strongly believes that freedom of expression and freedom of the press are central to building strong democracies, promoting civic participation and the rule of law, and encouraging human development and security. We also believe that protecting and furthering these fundamental human rights can help further another basic human right — the right to live free from poverty.&quot;

&quot;Media freedom is an indispensable cornerstone of a comprehensive and hopefully more effective international development strategy and we believe that it can help reduce the disheartening statistics that I just quoted. Freedom of expression serves as a trigger and catalyst for the realization of other basic human rights.&quot;

http://www.un.org/events/pressday/2006/panelgosselin.htm

&quot;Freedom of the press doesn’t only include the freedom of journalists (and, increasingly, bloggers) to publish information without fear of repercussions. It also includes the freedom to gather the information, as well as the freedom of the public to have access to the published information. This is enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:
 &quot;Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.&quot;
Reporters Without Borders 2007.
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/human-rights-facts-21-free-press/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From:<br />
Hélène-Marie Gosselin Director, UNESCO Office to the United Nations New York World Press Freedom Day May 3 2006. </p>
<p>&#8220;UNESCO strongly believes that freedom of expression and freedom of the press are central to building strong democracies, promoting civic participation and the rule of law, and encouraging human development and security. We also believe that protecting and furthering these fundamental human rights can help further another basic human right — the right to live free from poverty.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Media freedom is an indispensable cornerstone of a comprehensive and hopefully more effective international development strategy and we believe that it can help reduce the disheartening statistics that I just quoted. Freedom of expression serves as a trigger and catalyst for the realization of other basic human rights.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.un.org/events/pressday/2006/panelgosselin.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.un.org/events/pressday/2006/panelgosselin.htm</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Freedom of the press doesn’t only include the freedom of journalists (and, increasingly, bloggers) to publish information without fear of repercussions. It also includes the freedom to gather the information, as well as the freedom of the public to have access to the published information. This is enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:<br />
 &#8220;Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.&#8221;<br />
Reporters Without Borders 2007.<br />
<a href="http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/human-rights-facts-21-free-press/" rel="nofollow">http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/human-rights-facts-21-free-press/</a></p>
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		<title>By: gap1</title>
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		<dc:creator>gap1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Misr, please stop misrepresenting the facts and stop insulting people&#039;s intelligence. Isn&#039;t it enough that you have lost all credibility and respectability among decent Guyanese who are not fools enough to believe your shameless defense of Jagdeo&#039;s attempt to stifle freedom of speech and muzzle the press?

You want to prove SN&#039;s breath and reach, look at the amount of views their stories are getting online while KN is still to display their corresponding amount of views their paper is attracting. They quickly pulled their Blog Option either because they had noticed that they attracted comparitively very little discourse, and therefore not as wide an internet exposure as SN or your dear Jagdeo and company had a problem with the freedom of expression of the Bloggers and threatened KN. 

Stop peddling untruths. We know the Jagdeo Administration well. There is nothing more you or anyone of it&#039;s shameless defenders could tell us about them.  

Respect yourself!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Misr, please stop misrepresenting the facts and stop insulting people&#8217;s intelligence. Isn&#8217;t it enough that you have lost all credibility and respectability among decent Guyanese who are not fools enough to believe your shameless defense of Jagdeo&#8217;s attempt to stifle freedom of speech and muzzle the press?</p>
<p>You want to prove SN&#8217;s breath and reach, look at the amount of views their stories are getting online while KN is still to display their corresponding amount of views their paper is attracting. They quickly pulled their Blog Option either because they had noticed that they attracted comparitively very little discourse, and therefore not as wide an internet exposure as SN or your dear Jagdeo and company had a problem with the freedom of expression of the Bloggers and threatened KN. </p>
<p>Stop peddling untruths. We know the Jagdeo Administration well. There is nothing more you or anyone of it&#8217;s shameless defenders could tell us about them.  </p>
<p>Respect yourself!</p>
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