NOTED: Dreaded word culture 'like a newsroom hand grenade'

Abstract

They try everything, to gnaw at us, to drain us,' said the Haitaian broadcst journalist Jean Dominique. He was an enormously popular 'Mr truth' to his grassroots listeners. 'It's been going on for 50 years, and why should it stop? 'They can still try to crush us; to machinegun us; to ignore, slander bully and seduce is; to deflate, empty and distort us.'

Keywords

• international media
• coup
• corruption
• broadcast journalism
• scandal