Why should the press be more concerned?
Dec 30, 2007
EDITOR—There is concern among some sections of the public that the passing on of John Ruganda was not given due attention. The people who are saying someone should write a eulogy should write one themselves. Some debates are just based over trifles.
EDITOR—There is concern among some sections of the public that the passing on of John Ruganda was not given due attention. The people who are saying someone should write a eulogy should write one themselves. Some debates are just based over trifles.
The Rev. Amos Kasibante says Arthur Gakwandi, Timothy Wangusa or Manuel Muranga might have written something, “had they been askedâ€! Asked? Surely, those people ‘own’ literary giants like Ruganda more than the press does! What the press writes on literary people is for THEM. They should write and the press should run the obituary. Why should they be commissioned by the press?
If the literary people have not written about John Ruganda, surely it must say something about them and him! Who asked Susan Kiguli and Austin Bukenya to write about Henry Barlow and Jimmy Katumba? Nobody! Would the press handle the traffic if say, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka or Ngugi wa Thiong’o died today?
Kasibante should not say shame upon the press for writing ‘nothing’, when Stephen Senkaaba wrote something. That was what was available on Ruganda. If Kasibante can do better I am sure the press will be glad to publish his piece.
Nsekabuseka Muruhanga
Masindi
The Rev. Amos Kasibante says Arthur Gakwandi, Timothy Wangusa or Manuel Muranga might have written something, “had they been askedâ€! Asked? Surely, those people ‘own’ literary giants like Ruganda more than the press does! What the press writes on literary people is for THEM. They should write and the press should run the obituary. Why should they be commissioned by the press?
If the literary people have not written about John Ruganda, surely it must say something about them and him! Who asked Susan Kiguli and Austin Bukenya to write about Henry Barlow and Jimmy Katumba? Nobody! Would the press handle the traffic if say, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka or Ngugi wa Thiong’o died today?
Kasibante should not say shame upon the press for writing ‘nothing’, when Stephen Senkaaba wrote something. That was what was available on Ruganda. If Kasibante can do better I am sure the press will be glad to publish his piece.
Nsekabuseka Muruhanga
Masindi