The Birth of The Monitor
The Monitor Newspaper Picture
In pursuit of truth for justice
The birth of The Monitor newspaper is not just to join the comity of newspapers and be seen on the newsstands or on the cyberspace but to serve as social glue in a society that has gone through so much disparagement.
In pursuit of truth for justice, we are neither anti-government nor pro-government as we have an independent editorial policy to serve as the voice of the voiceless.
We come to grease Gambian journalism with more vibrancy by further amplifying the voices of the people who are taxpayers filling the coffers of a nation still wedged in the thick sludge of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).
Above all, we will put the nation first by prioritising the people, as the sovereignty of The Gambia resides in the people of The Gambia from whom all organs of government derive their authority and in whose name and for whose welfare and prosperity the powers of government are to be exercised in accordance with the Constitution.
We are not born to journey the path of promoting the griotization of Gambian journalism characterized by sycophantically watching the ghettoization of our economy that breed moribund democracy and failure.
The birth of this medium is also necessitated by the need to monitor the development of a country whose recent past of wisely preferring change by the BALLOT to change by the BULLET is gaining her a place among the ranks of epitomes of evolving new democracies.
This evolving democracy ought to be strengthened which is our business as sons and daughters of the nation in the Fourth Estate.
We hope that our irritant work of criticism, digging deeper into our society’s matters in respect of the public’s right to information would not be mistaken for being born to hurt.
For justice to be done in all aspects in a dispensation like ours today, truth must be pursued in good faith.
We have not forgotten and will continue to remember that the Adama Barrow administration did promise the nation a Free Press and Freedom of Expression, which is a sacrosanct right not charity.
We are genuine partners in development who deserve freedom to properly function.
A free press is the oxygen of democracy which we hope to breathe all the time in order to continue living as democratic beings who will not be spectators but participants in nation building.
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