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The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Prof. Emmanuel Martey, has likened �unprofessional Journalists� to �murderers�. He says: �Any Journalist that assassinates the character of any citizen is no different from the murderer who takes weapons and assassinates fellow human beings�. According to him, �we are all aware that in Ghana, there are journalists in media houses who engage in yellow journalism,� adding that, this type of Journalists do not do well-researched reporting and use �exaggerations, scandal-mongering and sensationalism techniques to cover up their unprofessional conduct�. The say-it-as-it-is Moderator pulled no punches in his criticism of unprofessional journalists when he spoke at the Osu Presbyterian Church on Sunday, to mark the 31st anniversary of the extra-judicial killing of three High Court Judges and a retired army officer by the Rawlings-led Provincial National Defence Council military junta on June 30, 1982. He said: �We need well educated journalists with analytical minds such as Kweku Baako Jr and with investigative minds like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, both of whom, interestingly, happen to be students of law�. Prof. Martey, therefore, said he wished all journalists before practicing, �will first read law and know the meaning of the rule of law and how to sustain it�. The anniversary ceremony of the murder of Justices Fred Poku Sarkodee, Cecilia Koranteng-Addow and Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong, is organised by the Ghana Bar Association and the Judiciary and remembered as �Martyrs Day� every year. That fateful day, 31 years ago, has been described by historians as one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in Ghana�s political history.