RADIO talk show host and former newspaper editor Ken Ali has been accused by his boss of being biased during an interview with the People National Movement’s (PNM) Fitzgerald Hinds.
The allegation was made in a Facebook live, streamed by Hinds, from the U97.5FM studio on Sunday.
The duration of the video was three minutes and forty-four seconds.
This is the exchange of words, which involved owner of the radio station where Ali works, Anand Rampersadsingh.
Hinds: “They only coming they only attacking.”
Ali: “So is a PR (public relations) interview then.”
Rampersadsingh: “Yea, from now on.”
Ali: “If I had known that I would have asked Kenrick to do it. I’m not a PR man, I’m a journalist, Kenrick deal with it. All of this makes the fire, you and I relate well. I am not no PR agent.”
Rampersadsingh: “Is money we looking at to pay alyuh salary. I don’t care what you think, if you want you could leave. I doh like how this going. Total bulls**t Ken… yuh f***ing being bias and I doh like that. At the end of the day, we have we balance and yuh not being balance and I been listening to you right and I have a lot of messages here too from what people are saying about you.”
Ali: “My job is to ask reporter’s question.”
Rampersadsingh: “But yuh asking bulls**t questions. When yuh have Tim Gopeesingh here who paying f***ing money and Vasant Bharath is a different story with you. At the end of the day, we have to make money to pay alyuh and like yuh not f***ing understanding that. Kenrick carry on.”
Hinds: “Since I sit down here Ken, ah doh know what alyuh have going on among alyuh, but since I sit down here, you notice the programme has been scrappy.”
Ali: “But you are shouting.”
Hinds: “No no, I’m answering I’m answering, but the programme has been scrappy for the last hour. They asking questions but you know is hostility, but I ain’t fraid it so I will answer them.”
Ali: “So what was supposed to happen?”
Hinds: “I doh know. I was asked to come for an interview so I am here. All I know is we not getting down to anything so I haven’t really gotten a chance to say nothing about what I would like to say.”
Ali: “I did not know it was a PR interview. If I knew it was that, I would not have done it.”
Rampersadsingh: “Ken, you doing f***ing PR inside here all the time, inside ah here for free. What the f*** yuh talking bout. Doh pretend you eh know what the f*** going on. I don’t give a f*** about what you have to say right now. You being bias. Alyuh have to understand is about f***ing money to pay alyuh. He will sit down here with Tim Gopeesingh for f***ing two hours and doing PR and f***ing Vasant Bharath who f***ing paying him behind the scene and now he pretending he doh know what going on. Alright, see that he have a good interview right.”
Hinds: “All this going live?”
Rampersadsingh: “No no no no.”
Hinds: “All this going live. No that going on, I never stop this inno. I didn’t know it was on, oh my God, I wasn’t aware. I thought you had cut off that live thing.”
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