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		<title>Rise of Naija Frivolous Journalism</title>
		<link>http://naijamediablunders.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/rise-of-naija-frivolous-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The easiest persuasive method to manipulate anything Nigerian – particularly the press – is the bandwagon effect. It’s like a whirlwind the way it sways the media and its superstars: columnists, presenters, producers, broadcasters, and even the deejays. Reality show, for instance, was first sold Nigerians by Guiness’ brainwashers in 2003. Pronto! Every station is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=177&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kogi Journalists Stripped &#8211; So What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it really hurt that the Nigerian Union of Journalists is the only professional body that absorbs blundering journalists and mediocre writers? No, it doesn’t. Not even when its members are stripped or humiliated by government or individuals. Let their headlines scream blue murder (as above). Nobody would heed them – not even in Kogi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=162&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ruins of Nigerian Fourth Estate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hellyjay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Nigeria is still this backward and unfocused in spite of her plethora of media organisations is worrisome.It is either Nigeria is irredeemable or her media is irresponsible &#8211; as the fourth estate of the realm. If the Normatve Theory of the press – that the press takes on the coloration of its socio-political setting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=156&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reuben Abati’s Unpardonable Gaffe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hellyjay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To blunder is human – natural. Is it so for super-human writers like Dr. Reuben Abati of the Nigerian Guardian? About two months after Sahara Reporters blew the gaff on land allocation in Abuja,Abati still hasn’t owned up his overt sin – his snobbish silence where his integrity is publicly challenged. He has chosen to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=140&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dora Akuyili and her PR Gymnastics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[P.R. Blunders Auntie Dora feels positive thinking could be swapped for good public relations. Why, good p.r is way different from alchemistry or metaphysics. It’s hopeless trying to make Nigerians feel good in darkness, hunger, poverty , insecurity, inequalities , joblessness and leadership blunders. No matter how many times we dust or kiss the national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=135&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Between Face and Grammar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hellyjay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still wondering there are certain grammatical blunders Naija media can’t help committing. The airwaves are permanently clogged with those silly expressions cockily rapped by 80% of Nigerian broadcast journalists. One of the most common is : …between you and I. It hit me square in the jaw when Jumoke Alao of the AIT gracefully spewed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=127&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian of Idle Editors</title>
		<link>http://naijamediablunders.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/guardian-of-idle-editors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover Story,The Guardian,January 27,2009.pg1&#38;2. I’m not going to prey on those four reporters sharing the byline, and their professional blunders. I hope by and by they’ll learn to write English, and make out the difference between ‘belief’ and ‘believe’, ‘shut’ and ‘shut down’. However, every hawk-eyed and informed reader in Nigeria must have observed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=121&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Akuyili Needs Brighter Grammar Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hellyjay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigerians should begin to hang their heads in shame now as their minister of info. and communication blunders in simple grammar. You had to be at George Akume’s birthday in Benue state,last week, when she spurted this nonsense:I congratulate you(Akume)for building…. This blunder could have been pardonable in her bedroom, or in an exco meeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=110&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DAAR Boss Blunders,too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hellyjay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read anything about the recent maximum blunders of the DAAR Communications boss and his squarest minister of information – Prof.(Pharm.)Akuyili? It’s in the Nigerian Guardian of January 12, 2009. Can’t Funke Fadugba or some geezer in the NUJ tell these clowns that their scratch-my-back-and-I’ll-scratch -yours tactic isn’t funny? Truly, I ain’t expecting anything better than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=93&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blunders have Payday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Failures are the horrible effects of blunders – professional or ethical – accumulated over times. As financial crises ripple across presses in America so every nation whose press follows that failure pattern will necessary come to grief.The Nigerian press is no exception. It’s no news again that the American Tribune and other big -time American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naijamediablunders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5470431&amp;post=84&amp;subd=naijamediablunders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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