This is an opportunity for GJA and every Media house to draw guidelines (from the experiences of senior journalist) and clearly indicate what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. The most dangerous aspect of corruption is when there is widespread acceptance that there is a grave penalty to pay if you don’t join in, instead of the other way round. But senior journalists have spoken and gone back to sleep (or hiding?).

Paul should have known that there is always the risk of appearing SOFTY-SOFTY or CURSORY if you obtain an exclusive half an hour interview with a “buddy-buddy” President who is not enjoying the best of popularity now; you will definitely be conjoined to his unpopularity.

I need to be corrected, but did I hear Paul asking the President to make him a minister in the next re-shuffle. Was is a joke? Did he tell the president it was a joke? Should we take it as a joke? If not a minister, what else? oil industry executive? We are not as vacuous as it seems to those in control, but there is a long line of journalists, no matter the political divide, who have undergone metamorphism by the stroke of the hands of those in government. In times like this, your innocence is only in the future.