Writing stories by journalists have so many angles depending on the motive of the writer.
This is why the readers have to be very conscious in analysing it thoroughly to know the area or angle that the story is going to be told so that the readers will clearly comprehend the nature in which it is written. In some cases, the writer will use words that will totally convince the reader to acept his presentation hook line and sinker.
Nevertheless, a journalist that is not monofocal with an ulterior motive will present the two sides of the story as a way of exhibiting mindfulness of the tenet of writing a particular story especilally the one that takes note of the sensitive in personalities reporting or a nation’s public interest story.
Referening the recent story of Manchester Evening News about shipment of cocaine from Sierra Leone Port Harbour Authority to Wigan in London in which some suspects were arrested and that created a wide range of tongue-wagging with a farrago of criticism against the source since neither the past nor the current manager of our port is aware of such an ugly development.
In fact, the stark reality is , if the writer has no hiden motive
to rope in that vital government entity that has made tremendious good records in and out of the country under the leadership of the them Dr, Fofanah as boss, being deputized by the current boss Mr. Yankuba Askia Bio who by all indications knows much about SLPHA where he has spent many time serving this nation deligently; he must have been contacted without an excuse of distant to get a balance view as a universal code of practice of the job .
In fact, those who are really conversant with the unfolding trend of issues at the port will attest to the fact that the story has some hidden motives especially during the time that the writer indicated in his writing, but there is no doubt that ‘honest readers’ will logically negate that because this is not the true image of our port that has postulated as an admirable record-setter during the regime of then head Dr. Fofanah and the current general manager Mr. Yankuba Askia Bio; who will prefare to loss every thing in live but will never mortgage his integrity that will dump the good image of the country.