Certain TV programmes have sunken to new low
Guyana Chronicle
February 1, 2004
Certain television programmes have sunken to a new low in their desperate ploys to attack the Government.
A narrator or interviewer asks a question off screen, and then a clip is shown of someone [on screen] apparently responding to the question.
It was obvious that the apparent answers or responses are what the people had said on other occasions in response to other questions from other people.
On the programme, "Guyana - the way forward - Ting Plenty Nah Regula," on Tuesday night of 27/1/04, excerpts from a Capitol News newscast were shown from time to time.
In one of them a news anchor [who was off screen] was purportedly asking a question of the US Secretary of Homeland Security. It was noticed that while the anchor was ostensibly asking his question, the official was actually speaking but without sound, but then was heard to say, " that was a good question...." But then the host told us what he said the man had said.
This is blatant and open chicanery and shows to what extent certain talk show programmes are prepared to go to attempt to fool the public in their centrally directed propaganda campaign to try once again to destabilize the government. As one show host said, "all efforts must be made to get them out."
We've heard that kind of rhetoric before. Maybe this is something that the Advisory Commission on Broadcasting should look into.
Yours faithfully,
Melissa Davis