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Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:UK Journalist Knocks T&T Newsday for Political Pappy Show
Joshua Surtees, a Former Newsday journalist who is now employed with Guardian UK, is knocking his former employers for Political Pappy Showing.
Following Guardian UK’s article on the two T&T boys stranded in Syria, he stated that he was part of the delegation that accompanied their mother and a delegation of individuals that would extract the boys from Camp Roj, the Syrian refugee camp where they were being held.
Surtees indicated that throughout this entire ordeal, the Trinidad and Tobago’s government has NEVER intervened, or requested to be part of this specialized, multi faceted extraction, but was angered to see that Newsday published an article the following day titled “Government Involved in Boy’s Return From Syria”.
Surtees said that this was, at its best, “PR for a Government that is Failing its citizens in all manner of ways and badly failed an individual citizen who spent over a year trying to get her kids back until eventually a rock star and lawyer from the UK stepped in.”
On seeing this inaccurate report being circulated in the local media, he requested Newsday Editor in Chief Judy Raymond retract the article or issue an accurate representation of the rescue process as it was undertaken, however this was refused. Unbeknownst to Surtees, the following day, Newsday furthered the government’s agenda by publishing an article titled “Wrong To Say We Did Nothing”, a story of Minister of National Security Stuart Young’s claim that the Government WAS involved in the process, however chose to bury an op-ed done by Clive Stafford on the accurate events of the extraction on page 14. Clive Stafford, the founder of Reprieve. Reprieve is a UK based human rights organization that works on high profile international cases where persons have been victims of terror, torture, extrajudicial imprisonment and extrajudicial killing.
Following this timeline of events, Surtees indicated that in the second article, Newsday engaged in a “smear campaign” by claiming that he was blocking the local media from taking pictures of the returning family, however, at the time, the only other reporter present was one from Trinidad Express who clearly understood the process involved. Newsday also published a photo of Surtees speaking to the family which also clearly refutes claims that he was blocking anyone from doing their job.
He offers a suggestion for this as he claims that Newsday acted vindictively as they expected a story from him on the day that the boys were handed over in Qamishli, Syria. This expectation was far from reasonable as he had no access to any forms of communication, and in addition to being stopped at multiple check points and police interviews which made reporting difficult. Citing the inaccuracies with Newday’s article, he found it strange that the article was credited as being done by Julien Neaves and Jada Loutoo, however they were not present at the airport for the family’s return.
Surtees says that he will now chose to sever ties with Newsday as a freelance journalist and have called others in the industry to take note on how journalism is practiced in T&T.
http://tt-talk.com/uk-journalist-knocks ... appy-show/
Allergic2BunnyEars wrote:Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:UK Journalist Knocks T&T Newsday for Political Pappy Show
Joshua Surtees, a Former Newsday journalist who is now employed with Guardian UK, is knocking his former employers for Political Pappy Showing.
Following Guardian UK’s article on the two T&T boys stranded in Syria, he stated that he was part of the delegation that accompanied their mother and a delegation of individuals that would extract the boys from Camp Roj, the Syrian refugee camp where they were being held.
Surtees indicated that throughout this entire ordeal, the Trinidad and Tobago’s government has NEVER intervened, or requested to be part of this specialized, multi faceted extraction, but was angered to see that Newsday published an article the following day titled “Government Involved in Boy’s Return From Syria”.
Surtees said that this was, at its best, “PR for a Government that is Failing its citizens in all manner of ways and badly failed an individual citizen who spent over a year trying to get her kids back until eventually a rock star and lawyer from the UK stepped in.”
On seeing this inaccurate report being circulated in the local media, he requested Newsday Editor in Chief Judy Raymond retract the article or issue an accurate representation of the rescue process as it was undertaken, however this was refused. Unbeknownst to Surtees, the following day, Newsday furthered the government’s agenda by publishing an article titled “Wrong To Say We Did Nothing”, a story of Minister of National Security Stuart Young’s claim that the Government WAS involved in the process, however chose to bury an op-ed done by Clive Stafford on the accurate events of the extraction on page 14. Clive Stafford, the founder of Reprieve. Reprieve is a UK based human rights organization that works on high profile international cases where persons have been victims of terror, torture, extrajudicial imprisonment and extrajudicial killing.
Following this timeline of events, Surtees indicated that in the second article, Newsday engaged in a “smear campaign” by claiming that he was blocking the local media from taking pictures of the returning family, however, at the time, the only other reporter present was one from Trinidad Express who clearly understood the process involved. Newsday also published a photo of Surtees speaking to the family which also clearly refutes claims that he was blocking anyone from doing their job.
He offers a suggestion for this as he claims that Newsday acted vindictively as they expected a story from him on the day that the boys were handed over in Qamishli, Syria. This expectation was far from reasonable as he had no access to any forms of communication, and in addition to being stopped at multiple check points and police interviews which made reporting difficult. Citing the inaccuracies with Newday’s article, he found it strange that the article was credited as being done by Julien Neaves and Jada Loutoo, however they were not present at the airport for the family’s return.
Surtees says that he will now chose to sever ties with Newsday as a freelance journalist and have called others in the industry to take note on how journalism is practiced in T&T.
http://tt-talk.com/uk-journalist-knocks ... appy-show/
Link to the original post by Mr. Surtees?
Hey you and others are free to buy what ever newspapers you like. I don't spend my money buying trini newspapers. I may read it online for amusement and always think how stupid this population has become.bluefete wrote:Thanks Duane. That was some read.zoom rader wrote:^^^ this is why I don't buy trini newspapers as they are all controlled by the PNM and 1%
So who controls the newspapers that you do read? Not the same 1% but in foreign?
Dizzy28 wrote:Allergic2BunnyEars wrote:Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:UK Journalist Knocks T&T Newsday for Political Pappy Show
Joshua Surtees, a Former Newsday journalist who is now employed with Guardian UK, is knocking his former employers for Political Pappy Showing.
Following Guardian UK’s article on the two T&T boys stranded in Syria, he stated that he was part of the delegation that accompanied their mother and a delegation of individuals that would extract the boys from Camp Roj, the Syrian refugee camp where they were being held.
Surtees indicated that throughout this entire ordeal, the Trinidad and Tobago’s government has NEVER intervened, or requested to be part of this specialized, multi faceted extraction, but was angered to see that Newsday published an article the following day titled “Government Involved in Boy’s Return From Syria”.
Surtees said that this was, at its best, “PR for a Government that is Failing its citizens in all manner of ways and badly failed an individual citizen who spent over a year trying to get her kids back until eventually a rock star and lawyer from the UK stepped in.”
On seeing this inaccurate report being circulated in the local media, he requested Newsday Editor in Chief Judy Raymond retract the article or issue an accurate representation of the rescue process as it was undertaken, however this was refused. Unbeknownst to Surtees, the following day, Newsday furthered the government’s agenda by publishing an article titled “Wrong To Say We Did Nothing”, a story of Minister of National Security Stuart Young’s claim that the Government WAS involved in the process, however chose to bury an op-ed done by Clive Stafford on the accurate events of the extraction on page 14. Clive Stafford, the founder of Reprieve. Reprieve is a UK based human rights organization that works on high profile international cases where persons have been victims of terror, torture, extrajudicial imprisonment and extrajudicial killing.
Following this timeline of events, Surtees indicated that in the second article, Newsday engaged in a “smear campaign” by claiming that he was blocking the local media from taking pictures of the returning family, however, at the time, the only other reporter present was one from Trinidad Express who clearly understood the process involved. Newsday also published a photo of Surtees speaking to the family which also clearly refutes claims that he was blocking anyone from doing their job.
He offers a suggestion for this as he claims that Newsday acted vindictively as they expected a story from him on the day that the boys were handed over in Qamishli, Syria. This expectation was far from reasonable as he had no access to any forms of communication, and in addition to being stopped at multiple check points and police interviews which made reporting difficult. Citing the inaccuracies with Newday’s article, he found it strange that the article was credited as being done by Julien Neaves and Jada Loutoo, however they were not present at the airport for the family’s return.
Surtees says that he will now chose to sever ties with Newsday as a freelance journalist and have called others in the industry to take note on how journalism is practiced in T&T.
http://tt-talk.com/uk-journalist-knocks ... appy-show/
Link to the original post by Mr. Surtees?
It was on his FB page
https://www.facebook.com/josh.surtees.5 ... 8438984290
Dem and so call trini Muslims eating more pork than you .matr1x wrote:Pork will cure their ISIS feelings
timothymcdavid wrote:Comments anyone?
zoom rader wrote:Dem and so call trini Muslims eating more pork than you .matr1x wrote:Pork will cure their ISIS feelings
). timothymcdavid wrote:What I dont understand is how this guys were radicalized what is it about Trinbago that these individuals feel this is the correct road for them to follow?
This country is far from perfect but for this kind of mentality to sprout from these shores is something that really puzzles me.
Redman wrote:timothymcdavid wrote:What I dont understand is how this guys were radicalized what is it about Trinbago that these individuals feel this is the correct road for them to follow?
This country is far from perfect but for this kind of mentality to sprout from these shores is something that really puzzles me.
Which young man didn't grow up and want to be a soldier?
That desire might be strong enough to push these youth...
This war has a low price of admission ....throw in some quasi religious fight down...you have open source warfare.
timothymcdavid wrote:Redman wrote:timothymcdavid wrote:What I dont understand is how this guys were radicalized what is it about Trinbago that these individuals feel this is the correct road for them to follow?
This country is far from perfect but for this kind of mentality to sprout from these shores is something that really puzzles me.
Which young man didn't grow up and want to be a soldier?
That desire might be strong enough to push these youth...
This war has a low price of admission ....throw in some quasi religious fight down...you have open source warfare.
Being a soldier is quite different from the ideals expressed by this guy ... being a soldier for children was playing dress up, shooting guns and fighting in wars ... killing noncombatants and people with dissimilar beliefs ... that is the kind of intolerance that i have difficulty coming to grips with.
This is a fully grown man not a child soldier by any means who cant fully rationalize what it means to kill someone.
Redman wrote:
No army recruits using the reality of warfare.
Isis just does what every army recruiting does...looks for young impressionable minds and says the right things..
The difference is that ISIS,leveraging the internet has a world wide target market and is able to use religion,anti american sentiment while not being limited by citizenship.
Get a local COI and pay him per head....
It worked here...as it did in all countries.
Redman wrote:No army recruits using the reality of warfare.
Isis just does what every army recruiting does...looks for young impressionable minds and says the right things..
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Phone Surgeon wrote:In my padna case....he believed in his heart that the muslim people were being taken advantage of.....and he had the strength to go assist....so he went and assist....guess he die fighting for what he believe in
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