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GO is what happens when a public medium is privately owned by contemporary politically active people.

It can never be and is not for The Common Good.

Before someone argues, when we have Twitter suspending the medium after Faroole's son is caught switching back and forth between his private account and GO public account, it is already a serious (and even DISQUALIFYING) ethical and moral breach between something claiming constitutional and free speech protections from regulation as an independent public medium and a privately owned, privately ran for profit enterprise subject to consumer protection laws.

The media motto "independent" isn't just independent from government control (state-owned) but also independent FROM who runs the business (editorially independent).

If the medium is just a different "log in" for a private entity, it is literally the scenerio used by ALL AUTHORITARIAN AND ANTI-FREE SPEECH MONOPOLIES justifying their attack on the media as a public medium.

I mean I want you to understand this carefully.

What GaroweOnline has displayed itself to be is EXACTLY what authoritarians justify as a reason for ending all private ownership of the media.

Now of course the authoritarians are ridiculous, but what is also ridiculous is GO's abuse and manipulation of the liberties of claiming to be a public medium in the service of the Common Good

No single person who cares about journalistic ethics and freedoms in service of the Common Good can be happy about a blatant bad faith actor like GO.

GaroweOnline should reorganize itself internally and draft strict ethical and journalistic independence guidelines to ensure organizational integrity.

Who reads that garbage anyways?

Saddam, some do.

As for their arguments it is not wrong for a public medium to skew towards a political ideology or value system and/or the integrity of their stories;

No, this is not about editorial position or ideology (conservative, liberal, libertarian, religious values, etc).

There is no identifiable position or ideology from GaroweOnline.

It strictly adheres to the personal political views of its owners.

It is not illegal to do that, but many of the rules successfully applied on public media all over the democratic world are essentially to limit something like that from claiming to be a public medium.

You can do that as a private [propaganda] business entity which then brings in public consumer protection.

The point is civilized society does not consider how GO functions as something "positive" for society.

As for the integrity of their storytelling, I am sufficiently lacking enough confidence in the integrity of its role in the "missing" soldiers in Tigray story that I would reserve all judgement on this until I see something like an independent investigation exonerate it.

Gubbet wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:24 am Saddam, some do.

As for their arguments it is not wrong for a public medium to skew towards a political ideology or value system and/or the integrity of their stories;

No, this is not about editorial position or ideology (conservative, liberal, libertarian, religious values, etc).

There is no identifiable position or ideology from GaroweOnline.

It strictly adheres to the personal political views of its owners.

It is not illegal to do that, but many of the rules successfully applied on public media all over the democratic world are essentially to limit something like that from claiming to be a public medium.

You can do that as a private [propaganda] business entity which then brings in public consumer protection.

The point is civilized society does not consider how GO functions as something "positive" for society.

As for the integrity of their storytelling, am sufficiently lacking enough confidence in the integrity of its role in the "missing" soldiers in Tigray story that I would reserve all judgement on this until I see something like an independent investigation exonerate i

I don’t read that garbage 🗑 anybody who does is clearly anti Somalia with its Kenyan editor

Saddam,

I don't read it either, but I want a healthy and vibrant system.

Notice I said GaroweOnline should fix this "internally" ---- not go out of business or be shutdown or be forced by any outside entity.

GaroweOnline has a role to play and different perspective is needed to hold each other accountable to the truth.

Gubbet wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:29 am Saddam,

I don't read it either, but I want a healthy and vibrant system.

Notice I said GaroweOnline should fix this "internally" ---- not go out of business or be shutdown or be forced by any outside entity.

GaroweOnline has a role to play and different perspective is needed to hold each other accountable to the truth.

Fair point

GO as a news outlet is insanely shite considering Faroole's sons and nephews are the owners. Same adeer who was going to refuse aid supplies from Xamar because HAG touched it. I hear they are planning a merge with WardheerNews, sad if true.