Please Remain Focus 

By John Andrew Langley, Oxford, England

Dear Editor:

Thank you very much for exercising ultimate maturity in managing the frugal babble of a clique of an intruder in the Internet world calling themselves journalists. I believe your mature way of handling such comic characters, whose only podium fits a twirling rubble of requiem and downright company of keratinous folks, is the only way forward for you journalists to rid your profession of such actors.

Amid the chilling Western morning weather, blossoming leaves and shrubs wafting in the reluctant wind outside, I looked through my window to see what that noise was all about. No! There wasn't any such noise. Just the peaceful sway of a beautifully sprouting Spring. But, there was indeed some rubble settling somewhere. I decided to quickly read the news on the Internet, as I always do before rushing to work whenever time allows me, and saw it. There was indeed noise - that kept swirling in my ears as if I had been held captive by a swam of bees. After reading your article responding to these Internet contributors, I checked in some other blogs to see for myself the childish kind of toy those people had presented for us to read. Then I made up my mind that you needn't have responded in the first place. You must be giving them great importance and recognition by paying them attention. You and them are like the two chromosomes of a diploid, one active and the other docile and making futile efforts to battle the other.

I don't know you, but the kind of English you write is not only inspirational but the very antidote of those characters' perfidy. But that is not the only thing that has impressed me about you, your colleagues and your paper. Your level of maturity is what has imbued me in frolicking the mouse to you on a daily basis.

There are some things I want you to always remember. You won more admiration from me when you removed that response to the characters, from your newspaper. Another thing I want you to always keep in mind is the fact that people already respect your paper and will always be. So if some grouchy lot jostling for acceptance into the Internet arena qualify themselves Internet-fit much more journalism, leave it to the readers. We know who among you is a journalist and who is not. You can own thousands of blogs but that does not make you a journalist. But, the media in The Gambia will clean itself one day when the Jammeh status quo is no more. You don't expect such people who do not have any place in their own areas to have places in another profession they don't belong. The gist of the matter is, people know these particular rattlers very well. You needn't say anything. They shall be exposed on your behalf. In as much as I was proud of you for removing that article which tended to make them important, I must not hesitate to state that I and many others will expose those two should they behave again, for we know them very well. Forget about the Immigration fraud and bad English they write. Many more will come if they think they can use that messy English to baselessly insult people for no reason. On that note, a cliché is the only line that can end this note - let sleeping dogs lie.

All the best,

John Andrew Langley, Oxford, England, UK.