Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Press Club Supports Clint Watson
October 9, 2018
Press Club in support of Journalist
Clint Watson
NASSAU, The Bahamas - The
Bahamas Press Club cries shame on Deputy Prime Minister K. Peter Turnquest for
his unfortunate and unfair marginalization of ILTV, it’s news director Clint
Watson and the informative programme, “Beyond the Headlines.”
On the floor of the House of
Assembly on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 Mr. Turnquest categorized
the content of such shows as coming from the “Black Belt Press” or “Ghetto News
Network,” which he says he doesn’t watch, to save himself from having
headaches.
But that is exactly the news
that all politicians want and need when they seek to gain power or to retain
it. They listen to the voices of the ordinary people, the people in the
“blackbelt,” the people in the “ghetto.”
Clint Watson ably defended
himself, his news station and the show, which he hosts.
Clint Watson is a respected
professional in an honourable and respectable profession.
The time is long past when
The Bahamas had just one radio station and one television outlet, which were
controlled by the government. It is long past the time when the journalists,
the editors, and the media house owners were dictated to by the politicians in
power and threatened with lawsuits when the news did not favour them.
Today, there are numerous
independent radio and television stations, which are prepared and able to
fearlessly represent the “Fourth Estate”, and the Bahamian public at large.
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Anthony S Capron
President
Bahamas Press Club
2014
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For further information contact: Lindsay Thompson, Secretary,
at (242) 434-5643 or
242-468-0862. Email: thebahamaspressclub@gmail.com.
Press Club Mourns Slain Bulgarian Journalist
October 9, 2018
Bahamas Press Club mourns
slain Bulgarian journalist
NASSAU, The Bahamas - The
Bahamas Press Club decries the October 6th rape and murder in Ruse of Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova.
“Violence against
journalists anywhere in the world is the same as violence everywhere. It
cannot, should not and must not be tolerated,” said President Anthony Capron.
The Bahamas Press Club
joins the global journalistic community in offering condolences to Ms.
Marinova’s immediate family and especially her seven-year-old daughter.
In the past we may not have
given it much thought in The Bahamas because of the thousands of miles of
separation. That, however, no longer holds true. In this digital age, real time
prevails, and events are known and viewed as they happen.
May she rest in eternal
peace.
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Anthony S Capron
President
The Bahamas Press
Club 2014
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For further information contact: Lindsay Thompson, Secretary,
at (242) 434-5643 or
242-468-0862. Email: thebahamaspressclub@gmail.com.
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