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The Managing Editor of the New Punch newspaper, Ebenezer Ato Sam, a.k.a Baby Ansaba, has taken the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Prof. Kwame Karikari, to the cleaners pooh-poohing his credentials as a Professor. According to the embattled journalist, the renowned professor has consistently maligned him after he (Ansaba) admitted to getting a story wrong about then candidate Atta Mills� health status during the 2008 election campaign. �He has consistently been bashing me�.by calling me a fraud, he even called me an ex-convict on a television station. When he knows that I am not an ex-convict,� he stated, apparently referring to a statement the professor made earlier on TV3 in an interview. �People who call themselves professors should make sure they do their own research before they come out. That man calls himself a professor, if he is a professor, he should find a newspaper and run for us to learn the ethics of the profession from it,� he fumed. Baby Ansaba, who called into CitiFm�s Breakfast Show to react to the scathing comments made against his person by Prof. Kwame Karikari, insisted that the host of the pogramme, Bernard Avle, apologize for asking questions that gave the professor the platform to hit hard on him. Prof. Karikari had averred that �Baby Ansaba should not be hailed for publicly confessing his fraudulent deeds.� �A person cannot be said to be courageous by confessing voluntary to bad things they have done. There is no courage in that�.I don�t know from what angle Baby Ansaba was confessing so that is something we should not hail unless the man is going to change his talent as a fraudulent journalist,� he added. But the New Punch Editor argued that he had been misquoted on several grounds thus making it possible for the former Director General of the GBC to discredit him to the extent of labeling him a fraud. �I would like him to explain to me what he means by fraudulent journalist?� He asked. �We all don�t get it right every time, sometimes we might get it wrong. And that is exactly what my newspaper did and I am bold enough to come out�.I did not say we fabricated stories, what I said was that we got it wrong� I have not mentioned anywhere that i published something which upon reflection, realized was wrong,� he added.