*THE RISE AND FALL OF GOA'S FIRST 24 HOUR NEWS CHANNEL -- OF BAD EGGS IN NIRVANA'S NEST*
*When reports of a 24 hour news channel in Goa first started filtering in, there were varied reactions. Some scoffed. Some said Goa wasn't big enough. Some called it a fly-by-night operation. Some said oh... finally some relief from these numerous one-hour-news-bulletin rackets. * *Less than a year has lapsed. The 24 hour news channel we are talking about **STV GOA NEWS **has already shut shop in a very very suspiscious manner. For a few days before its closure, all that was bombarded on the channel were ads for Nirvana's Nest, a residential complex which the promoters of **STV GOA NEWS **had a stake in. * *A few days ago we interviewed former input editor (designated) Ajay Thakur over email about the functioning of this 24 hour media-mushroom, which showed up and disappeared as quickly as that. Here's the first part of that interview. The second part will be uploaded tomorrow. It has a very very interesting disclosures about STV GOA NEWS' holy cows in its editorial policy. Do watch out for it. * *If you guys have any counter questions, mail them to us. We'll see if we can get some response from Ajay on them * *for more read http://penpricks.blogspot.com***
