OpEd: The Nigerian Media Conspiracy By Ayoola Faseyi | Sahara Reporters
In the West, for instance, the media is polarized along the two broad ideological lines of conservatives and liberals with their journalists having sturdy views on either side before they become journalists. This explains why the movement from one media house to the other has an unwritten rule of it being regulated by ideological biases. For example, CNN’s Richard Quest who is openly gay turned down an offer to join the conservative Al Jazeera because he didn’t think he would be a right fit.
The lady interviewer asked me a series of questions and prominent among them was my view on the election. The use of BVAS and the uploading of results on the IReV portal. I said the issues raised by Dino Melaye and other opposition voices at the collation was the simultaneous transmission of results into the IReV portal as the results are being read by the various State collating officers.
I spoke on the shoddiness of INEC, how they promised electronic transmission at a point, their dilly dialing et al and how much was expended on technology but still failed to deliver on real-time electronic transmission. But added that it is not compulsory to transmit electronically.
Thank God for the liberalization of the media which has seen the emergence of many online and new media platforms become behemoths in a jiffy.
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