Back track to May 20th, 2013- The e-mail of September 8 reveals that the “Attorney General is asking help from Captain Griffith to stop a story”. The e-mail stated: “There is an article from the Guardian that a reporter from the Guardian called me involving our boys. I need you to get your feelers out there and nip the story”. Fast forward to, Thursday 11th 2013- On Monday, Judy Raymond was given an assignment which would have “physically extracted” her from the newsroom. “Whereas she was allowed to retain the title of editor-in-chief, she was performing none of the functions of an editor-in-chief. We were told further that a body was appointed to come to our editorial meetings and, as you know, that meeting is sacrosanct and is the forum at which we decide what is going into the paper the next day,” Guardian Public Affairs editor Dr Sheila Rampersad said. She said when editors queried the reason for this, no clear reason was given. “So we assumed that the purpose of that was interference, that somebody was supposed to monitor and report what we were putting in the paper the following day. “For any amateur journalist, much less senior journalist, that is totally unacceptable to us,”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:48:12 +0000
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