 News Adam Mynott: BBC’s scribbler in Nairobi wallows in pure propaganda work
Reporters like Adam Mynott, whose trashy “news report” could be scribbled within a few minutes, like an email response, evade the nasty human rights records of Eritrean-agent Meles Zenawi, the man Mynott is trying to defend to please Tony Blair, without taking into consideration if his unbridled and filthy way of writing would do injustice to 70 million Ethiopians. Instead of acting like a development “expert”, did the BBC correspondent talk to those with authoritative ideas on why Ethiopia is relegated to a nation dependent on “food handouts”? Did he mind to investigate what Ethiopian scholars have been writing on our double scourge of being endowed with natural resources and yet condemned to cyclical famines? No self-respecting reporter would stoop too low like Mynott, and think readers would mistake his naked propaganda work for a journalistic accomplishment. Readers should take note of today’s dramatic development news about the Toshka Depression in Egypt, a project Hosni Mubarak launched only in 1997, and turned into lush green Sahara, thanks to the “ownerless” Ethiopian Blue Nile waters. If Egypt can turn a desert into an orchard of fruits and vegetables with Ethiopian waters, why do reporters like Mr. Mynott fail to raise one relevant question among many: “Why is Ethiopia failing despite its enormous resources?” The answer is they don’t want us to base our abject poverty on governments headed by dictators and mercenaries that Mr. Tony Blair has embraced as his emissaries for his own dubious interests. They want us to bury our heads in the sand, so to speak, and accept the man-made disaster that has befallen us as something natural, as our perennial Tsunami, and we have to live with the “aid” mentality. ETHIOMEDIA.COM – ETHIOPIA’S PREMIER NEWS AND VIEWS WEBSITE © COPYRIGHT 20001-2003 ETHIOMEDIA.COM. EMAIL: [email protected] |
