TADIAS MAGAZINE Duplicity is unforgivable

July 8, 2013

by Teshome Debalke

Tadias Magazine known for its elegant presentation of the lives of Ethiopian Americans in Diaspora caught with its pants down. The Magazine skipped the most important festival; the Ethiopian Sport Federation in North America (ESFNA) that brought in tenth of thousands of Ethiopians from around the world in the Washington DC metropolitan area.

Instead, Tadias featured an off-event concert by Mahmoud Ahmed and Teddy Afro asreported by Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post. The biggest event ever that brought the two famous entertainers was missing in action as far as Tadias Magazine was concerned. Not even a piece of article was afforded to the 30^th anniversary ESFNA nor the star of the entire Festival-the organizers and the location were mentioned.

The New York based online magazine that claim ‘tailored towards the Ethiopian-American community’ missed the largest Ethiopian-American community across the Delaware River.  Talk about betrayal. This can’t be some kind of oversight but a deliberate attempt to censure the gathering of Ethiopians for what can only be described for political reasons. Only in Ethiopia under the ruling regime this can happen not in the free world.

Among the ‘latest news’ featured this week on the Magazine related to Ethiopian Diaspora are:

Ethiopia: Creating a Culture of Progress – Book Talk at Sankofa in DC.

Washington City Paper: See Some Ethiopian Music This Week (There Will Be a Lot of It)

This isn’t small matter to ignore. The Editors of the Magazine must be contacted by responsible Medias and organizations to answer for their clammy journalism. They must answer in public whether they are protecting the ruling regime or their advertizing income coming from the regime via Ethiopian Airline.

We have no knowledge of any other Ethiopian related Media that completely skipped the biggest event in the history of the Ethiopian in Diaspora, except the official propaganda outlets of the Woyane regime.

Ethiopians must follow-up on Tadias delinquency of duty and any other Media that says one thing and does another in a cover of Media. If Media outlets aren’t transparent to the public who would?

It is about time Media organizations form Media monitoring group to protect the public from misinformation, disinformation or pure propaganda of ‘Media’ outlets.