When village people, possibly Siridao and Agacaim meetup with Kiwi farmer background reporters, this is the result. Sheer ignorance. That expression probably originates around China, where, when I was once on a teaching assignment at Shanghai, I was told at a dinner that 'the only thing the Chinese do not eat with four legs are the tables'. The only consolation is that that newspaper has a microscopic circulation and most of them must had been recycled on their fish and chips takeaways. Worth writing to the editor to correct the statistics though... before it is cloned elsewhere on another website... and then becomes a 'fact'.
________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of fredericknoronha <[email protected]> Sent: 12 December 2023 20:42 To: Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> Subject: [GRN] Re: Fake news about Goa I think she was wrong. We also don't eat doors and windows! More seriously though: (i) Shouldn't the newspaper also carry part of the responsibility for deciding on such a click-baitish headline, without verifying the facts and just accepting what they were told? (ii) From a newspaper point of view, isn't it a great headline which not only makes us look at some small newspaper in a remote part of the globe? Not only that, it also made me Google to find out what Te Upoko o Te Ika refers to...! (iii) Due to the general crisis in the ad-dependent newspaper revenue model, and its consequences, I'm not sure how many trust the way large parts of the media function these days. The newspaper in question has a circulation of circa 30,000. FN On Wednesday 13 December 2023 at 02:00:04 UTC+5:30 Pedro Mascarenhas wrote: In Goa we are all Catholic so we eat everything, except the chairs and tables.” - A Lady of Goa resident in Auckland «broadcast» a fake news. And most of the Hindus in Goa, they don't exist? The readers of this newspaper swallowed the lie. In this way false information are spread on other continents. The Post<https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350124850/goa-we-are-all-catholic-so-we-eat-everything-except-chairs-and-tables> The Post<https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350124850/goa-we-are-all-catholic-so-we-eat-everything-except-chairs-and-tables> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/45007268-866c-440b-9f41-00eddaff9c7dn%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/45007268-866c-440b-9f41-00eddaff9c7dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/GV2P195MB2161E282F2E65939E47B8138828EA%40GV2P195MB2161.EURP195.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
