I look on in amuse­ment and be­muse­ment at the storm in a teacup over the re­as­sign­ment of Fazeer Mo­hammed by CN­MG man­age­ment, and I stand in my shoes and won­der. We tru­ly are a friv­o­lous and fool­ish peo­ple in­deed.

First­ly, we have a jour­nal­ist who tries to project him­self as a talk-show host who deals with is­sues in an en­light­ened man­ner, while sub­scrib­ing to a re­li­gious doc­trine that de­means women by deem­ing them un­fit for lead­er­ship. The con­tra­dic­to­ry na­ture of that is stun­ning, to say the least. I guess the men of that re­li­gion lead in child­bear­ing, oth­er­wise Mo­hammed would not have been born to em­brace what is a back­ward, ig­no­rant be­lief, de­spite his ed­u­ca­tion.

Next we have a min­is­ter of gov­ern­ment who is sup­posed to be a man­age­ment ex­pert and who gave dai­ly man­age­ment tips on a morn­ing ra­dio pro­gramme up to this year. Yet, with all his man­age­ment bril­liance he de­scends in­to the gut­ter to make the jour­nal­ist's re­li­gious be­lief, fool­ish as it might be, an is­sue in their dis­cus­sion of a to­tal­ly un­re­lat­ed mat­ter, all in a mis­guid­ed ef­fort to de­fend the PM who did not need de­fend­ing. The PM should de­fend her­self now by fir­ing him forth­with for un­nec­es­sar­i­ly ex­pos­ing her to un­earned crit­i­cism from her de­trac­tors.

Then we have a group claim­ing to be Mus­lims protest­ing a non-is­sue, and Matt mak­ing va­pid state­ments that make no sense, since, when the PNM was in pow­er, it did not find fault in any­thing re­lat­ed to the PNM us­ing CN­MG as a feed­ing trough for its pre­ferred lap dog "jour­nal­ists," wast­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of tax­pay­ers' dol­lars in the process.

Why, for in­stance, was a jour­nal­ist who has such a back­ward, un­civilised view of women em­ployed by the State in such an in­flu­en­tial po­si­tion?Not to for­get Max­ie Cuffie, one of the PNM's jour­nal­ists, who now knows that CN­MG should be sold. When, if ever, pray tell, dur­ing his tenure dur­ing the PNM's reign did he so rec­om­mend? Why now but not then?

But he is cor­rect, of course. Gov­ern­ment has no busi­ness spend­ing our mon­ey like that, and CN­MG should be sold, giv­en away, dumped as trash, what­ev­er, as long as it can no longer waste our mon­ey "mind­ing" jour­nal­is­tic medi­oc­ri­ties who can­not com­mand a po­si­tion in the le­git­i­mate, com­pet­i­tive me­dia hous­es, or who are too lazy to do so.And please, let this ir­ri­tat­ing teacup storm pass quick­ly. I can't stand much more of the fool­ish­ness.