The Journalist?

June 2, 2012Posted inMedia32 Comments
Politicians and political parties love media coverage. The Journalist, a weekly paper, has featured PDP on its cover, directly or indirectly, in four of its last 8 issues. Therefore, PDP must be happy. Right? Not exactly. Every one of The Journalist’s stories on PDP during the last two months has a negative bias. And almost every one of them seems to be intended to undermine the PDP, and to discredit its president. The Journalist began their 1st April cover story by telling readers that: The talk in town is that Gasa MP, Damchoe Dorji, the only opposition member apart…

2 Letters

January 3, 2011Posted inLegislature, Media9 Comments
I sent two letters today. The first letter was to the Chief Election Commissioner informing him that the ECB’s recent decision to revise the criteria for candidates to local governments may violate provisions of the Constitution, Election Act and the Local Government Act. The second letter was to the Director of BICMA complaining that The Journalist had quoted me in their article when they hadn’t even interviewed me. And that, in that article, they had inaccurately claimed that I had supported the ECB’s decision.