By FESTUS OKUBOR
Reading Ejiro Idama’s latest offering in Vanguard was like watching a gifted comedian trying very hard to pass for an auditor. The jokes landed. The arithmetic did not. It reminded me of the old Ika saying: “The man who counts another man’s yams with his eyes often forgets to count the ones in his own barn.”
Ejiro asks, “How did Sheriff happen to Delta?” Permit me to ask a simpler question: How did satire become a substitute for evidence? There is absolutely nothing wrong with political criticism. Democracy breathes through criticism. But criticism should at least nod respectfully in the direction of facts before running off with imagination.
If a doctor ignored a patient’s blood pressure, laboratory results and ECG and instead diagnosed him by the shape of his cap, we would call that malpractice.
Why should journalism be different?
