On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Bernado Colaco wrote: > > Kudos to Aires Rodrigues and Floriano Lobo for > > having > > the guts to speak out and expose the misdeeds of the > > politicians. Unfortunately, their message has a > > narrow audience limited to cyberspace. > > Vivian A. D'Souza > >
> After Edgar and myself critcized Fred, it now seems > that skeletons are coming out of the cupboard. > Portuguese bashing was and is the norm of journalism > in Goa for the past 40 years to walk the thin line of > job security, in what is called a flourishing democracy. Quite a nice troll! Everyone agrees that journalism in Goa has many defects and many problems, which naturally affect all of us practitioners here. We too are only human and have our failings too. But "Bernado" Colaco is straying far away from reality by explaining all the problems that journalism suffers from in terms of "Portuguese bashing". Like those few guys on the Goa-Goans mailing list, who blame the Press for every ill Goa is suffering, and then go on to somehow link this with the few (accurate or otherwise) reports critical of Portugual that have appeared in the local press, "Bernado" and the others are simply missing the point. The newspapers offer limited scope for one to express their views. This is true in Goa, as in almost any other place of the so-called 'developed' world. As former journalist Ben Antao has rightly pointed out, the concept of a Free Press is a myth, regardless which part of the globe you're located in. The Net offers wider space for expression of one's views, but as pointed out by Vivian, reaches a limited audience. Goa's media also faces its own specific problems, which need to be discussed and debated. Some of us journalists are working to come out with an e-book on Goa's media, that will look precisely at these issues. We look forward to having "Bernado" read it. But where are you really located? Should we send it to Macau, London or somewhere in the American continent? ;-) FN ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
