By Patrick Ahanor
Benin City
Veteran journalists in Edo have expressed concern over the deteriorating trends in the nation’s media, both in terms of professional and ethical conducts.
The professionals under the aegis of League of Veteran Journalists (LVJ) also flayed the moral deficiency and flagrant disregard for experience by younger practitioners even as they pleaded with publishers to strive to meet wage obligations to their reporters and editors.
Chairman of the League, Comrade J.O. Obadigie, expressed the reservations during the maiden anniversary celebration of the group in Benin City, the Edo state capital.
Obadigie reminded practitioners that journalism is a noble profession because according to him, it is recognised and assigned special role by the constitution.
Obadigie therefore charged reporters to strive at all times to balance their stories in order to present the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
On the N5 million scandal currently rocking the Edo council of the NUJ, Obadigie remarked that the profession was a field for achieving fame, nobility and not one for making quick money.
The LVJ chairman also paid glowing tribute to the former national leadership of the union under Mr.
Ndagene Akwu, who he said, created the then Elders Advisory Committee that metamorphosed into the LVJ.
He advised leaders of states’ councils, and their component chapels to tap from the wealth of experience of the veterans by intimating them with developments in the union with a view to resolving problems as they arise.
