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| The Mirror's 1st edition and The Daily Standard's 2nd edition/PHOTO/MSJOOF |
Two newspapers have hit the newsstands in and around
Banjul, the Gambian capital this month, October 2012.
The Mirror and The Daily Standard are the latest
addition to the Gambian newspaper publishing industry, which is often
characterised as “not free.” The new newspapers began publishing a
month after the “arbitrary closure” of two leading independent newspapers, The Standard and The Daily News.
Personnel of the national intelligence agency (NIA)
ordered the two privately-owned The
Standard and The Daily News to
cease operation on September 14, 2012 without an explanation.
An order they (NIA) claim to have come from
President Yahya Jammeh’s office, State House.
Exactly a month earlier, NIA operatives gave a
“final order” to close Taranga FM, an independent community radio station on
August 14, 2012. As usual, no reason was advanced.
The Mirror
In its first edition of Friday October 12, 2012, The Mirror which publishes once a week,
said on its editorial page: “We at The Mirror bring to the general readership a
unique Gambian journal that would be producing stories, features and
commentaries that are of public interest to our audience.”
“Our goal is
to break away from the old style and create something new, unique and relaxing,
but informative to all and sundry,” the paper said in the editorial captioned:
“What We Stand For.”
The Mirror, founded
by Gambian writer Seedy Bojang, who is the Editorial Director added: “We hope
to bring to the newsstand, a journal that will be presenting stories and
features from fresh and human angles. While telling stories in depth, the
entertainment angle will always be considered in a way that is uncommon in this
country.”
Sounds independent, Lamin Jahateh, a Gambian
journalist and publisher of Gambia News Online
said of The Mirror, while giving his view on the editorial leaning of the
paper.
The Daily Standard
Meanwhile, The
Daily Standard, which publishes three times a week, hit the newsstand with
its first edition on Wednesday, October 17, 2012.
“Daily Standard
Boss Commends President Jammeh” says a headline published on the
paper’s front page second edition of Friday, October 19, 2012. In the story,
The Daily Standard’s Proprietor RC Taylor commends the Gambian leader Yahya
Jammeh on his “development agenda.”
According to Mr. Taylor, Yahya Jammeh’s development
agenda has “transformed the country in a short space of time from a tiny
unknown hamlet to a growing nation of dignified people.”
Mr. Taylor, a Gambian who is said to have registered
The Daily Standard paper since 1991, said he believe in the “philosophy, views
and strategies” of the president Jammeh and wishes to assure him of the Daily
Standard’s “unflinching support” in the course of national building under his
leadership.
Sounds pro-government, Mamadou Edrisa Njie, a
Gambian journalist and publisher of Mansa Banko said of
The Daily Standard, while giving his view on the editorial leaning of the
paper.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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