Are journalists bitter? A response to Keineetse

I read Keineetse "KK" Keineetse's riposte to my article in last Friday's Mmegi with detached amusement. In a rather long-winded way KK highlights legitimate concerns about certain things which are happening in our society which need to be interrogated. I am all for that.

I am as concerned as he is about the spate of "extra judicial killings" that are taking place in our country. And I agree with him that the media has the right to ask the authorities sharp and pointed questions about the macabre killing of John Kalafatis.

However, I am disappointed that instead of KK taking on the issues that I raised in my article, blow by blow, he went on and on about what he thinks is wrong about our society without proffering solutions to those problems. In my view we need to raise the level of the debate by coming up with alternatives instead of being poetic about the problems.

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