The Editor of the Daily Guide newspaper has called the bluff of the Information Minister John Tia over comments made about him in an editorial published by the paper. The minister is demanding an apology over the editorial indicting his attempt to explain the 2011 budget. Mr. Tia says the words used were derogatory seeking to insult his intelligence and tarnish his reputation and has petitioned the National Media Commission for redress. But the editor of the newspaper, Fortune Alimi insists the paper will neither retract nor apologize. He said the minister himself owes the paper an apology because he, Mr Tia, also used pejorative terms to describe the paper and its editors. The Information Minister didn’t “even have the courtesy to send us a copy of the rejoinder to our story. So what was he trying do? Just to embarrass us? And if he is talking about embarrassment, we have not embarrassed him. If anything at all, he has rather embarrassed us,” he said. Source: Joy News/Ghana