Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
28 February 2008
Violence sparked off Yesterday in some neighbourhoods halting most activities.
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To the best of my knowledge you are not fit to be a journalist.Shame on to you BRENDA YUFEH.Do you want readers to believe with you that people just suddenly started burning tyres and prostesting for no good reason.You just want to tell us that,you are out of reach of facts or hiding the truth.Can you explain yourself better by calling people Vandals,what creteria have you used.It means the whole country has sudden been attacked by a madness,everybody rioting.If i were your master that you want to please,not a franc will be given to you because nothing has been said.I will advice that if you are not married better go and get an old tapper in the village and settle down to produce a replica fools of your type,town life not good for you.And if its promotion that you want forget about it but for money you can never be paid chick feed 50.000frs.Tell the truth that's what your job demands ok?
The writer of this piece refers to the protesters in Yaounde as "vandals" at least five times. It completely fails to link what was happening in Yaounde to similar events happening in other places in Cameroon and thus gives the impression that what was happening in Yaounde was an isolated event and the perpetrators simply portrayed as criminals. It sounds as if a gang of bandits held Yaounde hostage for a while. Reading this piece one would hardly think that similar events were happening in Douala, Bamenda, and other places in Cameroon at the same time.
This sloppy journalism from Cameroon Tribune is what Cameroonians have come to expect. It is a shame that a paper owned by the Cameroonian people grants them such bad deals when it comes to informing them about what is happening in their country. Journalists paid by the tax payers have tended to serve the interest of the corrupt Biya government rather than the people for whom they are working. It's a shame.