Congress shall make no law…. abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…. This is the part of the First Amendment and the words are very plain, and would seem to be beyond the power of even lawyers and politicians to twist or distort. The Constitution’s framers provided the[Read More…]
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Gambia: Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!
(JollofNews) – Fake news is so real and so pervasive that already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of championing a healthy[Read More…]
Gambia: Not Normal Times
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed”, Mao Zending “Any Coalition has its troubles as every married man knows”, Arthur Hays Sulzberger These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. The vitality of democracy is civic participation. And[Read More…]