Some of you will notice in this edition that we have republished some of our stories and articles from our Monday 18 May edition.
We had to do this after realizing that only a few copies of that edition reached our target audience.
Feedback from the market and our general readership indicated that some unscrupulous individual or group of individuals went out of their way to ensure that the edition didn’t reach the public for reasons best known to them.
How they did it: They attempted to buy all the copies in bulk, directly from the newspaper vendors. They apparently arrived at the newsstand a bit late so a handful of the vendors had left. If you managed to secure a copy, that’s why you did. Even at that they went around town looking for the few vendors who had left before they got to the Post Office – the newsstand.
We are still investigating the motive for this and who could have been behind it, but we understand that they didn’t want a particular story contained in the edition, which they viewed as bad publicity for them, to reach the reading public.
The management and editorial team at Politico Newspaper takes the greatest exception to this mischievous act by whoever did it, and we want to assure our readers that we are putting measures in place to prevent a repeat of the incident.
At Politico, our goal is not just to make money from the work we do; it is also to serve the cardinal role of journalism – information, education and entertainment. And we have no doubt that we have always strived to do our best to serve this purpose with the utmost professionalism.
Like in all previous publications, all the stories and articles contained in the Monday 18th edition were worked on with this same level of professionalism. If anyone felt there was a story that shouldn’t see the light of day, they must be guilty of whatever unfavourable publicity is contained in the report they didn’t want seen by the public.
While we regret that incident, we want to assure those undoubted agents of suppression of freedom of information that their action, as heinous as it is, had little effect on our ever strong resolve and ability to continue informing the public. One thing they also failed to realize is that our online presence is as strong as our print edition.
That said we regret that some of you our dedicated readers who follow the print edition couldn’t access it. We therefore appeal to you to check out on www.politicosl.com for all the stories and more.
To our esteemed advertisers, we also hereby express our fervent apology for the disruption in circulation.
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