This Is Toilet Journalism

1. When I was a teenager during the 1970s there was a dirty game that boys at high school used to play. If you did not like someone, or you saw another boy cozying up to a girl that you had a crush on, you would use the first opportunity that you got to go to the toilet to  quickly scribble an insult on the wall directed at your perceived rival. It gave the perpetrator momentary gratification. I guess it still happens. It is called toilet journalism. Nowadays the euphemism, graffiti, is used to refer to this phenomenon.

2. It came to me as a shock to learn that your newspaper has degenerated to that level. Over the past two weeks, The Patriot on Sunday, published two stories purporting that Methaetsile Leepile and Titus Mbuya are fronting for businessman, Seyed Jamali, to clandestinely buy the Mmegi Group of companies.