Pressures on the press? Systematic sidelining of journalists? "Blocking out of news from the Goa press"?
Sacking newspaper editors? Is this going on in "democratic" Goa in 2003?
I thought muzzling the press was a feature of dictatorships. What kind of democracy has room for this subversive development? Isn't a free press essential to a democratic set up?
Where are all those "freedom fighters", ever so ready and happy to denounce the evils of the colonial regime of more than 40 years ago? The fight is over for them? Have they been silenced too, with their "freedom fighter pensions", college quotas and other privileges? Or perhaps having a free press was not part of what they "fought" for? And the Goan "intelligentsia" in Goa - nobody saying anything on this?
Rui Miranda Colla�o
Lisbon
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Arguably the issue is more complex than this. Over the years, the blocking out of news from the Goa press has been a growing trend. A number of journalists have been systematically sidelined, and find it very difficult to get published.
The pressures on the press, particularly under the current dispensation,
is a reality. There are many other journalists who have been sidelined, or silenced over
the years. FN
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