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The soul of journalism is in investigation (facts and figures as corroborated by principal sources) but under a system that loathes the truth, our finest of journalists have become endangered species based on oppression, suppression, intimidation & unjust incarceration by Govt.
Unless there is another meaning of credibility which sentimentally suggests publishing what is politically correct in the line of Government propaganda void of the truth, logic, sensitivity, sensibility, empathy & rationality. The press MUST be Free if our society is free indeed.
The Character of the Kingdom as they say emanates from the King. If the Govt want the media to be transparent & factual they must lead by example with transparency, accountability cum full disclosure. When Govt avoids debates & media parleys, you leave the media guessing.
“Cogitationis pænam Nemo meretur” - No man deserves punishment for a thought. As laid down by Lord Mansfield, so long as an act rests in bare intention it is not punishable, yet when an act is done the law judges not only the act itself but of the intent with which it was done.
Suffice to say, He who wants Equity Must Do Equity and proceed with clean hands. Nigerians are drowning under malicious and mendacious disinformation from government quarters, despite the fact that they know the populace is highly educated as globally corroborated.
We live in a country that’s since been plunged into the restive & oppressive suppositions engineered by identity politics of hate. A village where rationality/objectivity is perceived as heresy cum rhetoric of an adversary (hate speech of opposition) as reinforced by Govt aides.
How else do you make a believer of a people you loathe to engage? How do we help our youth the truth to know when our media is coerced into publishing only that which caresses the desperate sentiments of the status quo in a country where fact is perceived to contradict figures?
