Re: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-20 Thread lyrawmn
Soter: I agree with you.   It is the matter of lack of integrity, transparency and independence of the press.   If the newspaper's editor can not even attribute credit  to JoeGoaUK for use of his  photography - a simple matter of journalistic ethics -  will they have the spine to report the

[Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-19 Thread soter
Sometimes it just baffles me as to why people blame politicians for Goa's miserable state. It is just like the parents of a drug addict blaming the friends, police and government for not doing enough to curb the drug menace. We simply deny that we are also part of the problem. When it suits us

Re: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Fernandes
Finally, somebody hit bulls eye!!! These were the same questions I posed my own inquisitive mind many years ago. The answer always came back to just one word - Goans. It's we, Goans, who must blame ourselves, for our miseries. We are in such a deep hole, that it wouldn't matter anymore -

Re: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-19 Thread soter
I definitely endorse the view of JC that the media also has a significant role in abetting the crimes on Goa. The media dictates the agenda according to whose interests have to be served. But the media is owned by the very Goan industrialists who keep these political puppets floating. Goans

Re: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-19 Thread floriano
:50 PM Subject: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa? Who are those who give abode to migrants on fantastic rents without toilets? Who? Who? Who?

Re: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-19 Thread J. Colaco jc
Dear Soter, While what you have written may be true, I believe that you have, possibly, missed a perhaps small but definitely not insignificant part of the problem i.e. the relative silence of the Goa-press which IMHO specialises in making a big jumbalaya after the water has flown way past the