From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:53 AM


> From: "Sachin Phadte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:58 AM

> > Valmiki Faleiro wrote: "Press freedom, like most ideals in life, is only a
> > relative term. Not absolute.  Not here in India nor, from the little I > know,
> > anywhere else in the world."
> >
> > If that be the case, then do we have a right to criticise the present
> > dispensation in Goa if they try to muzzle the press?  I think Valmiki is
> > rationalising.
> >
> > Sachin Phadte.
> 
> RESPONSE:
> 
> Well said mon ami, with this I am with you and we are not being pedantic!
> We are either with or without.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gabe Menezes

MY TAKE:

So it's either black or white (full Press freedom OR none at all) and no shades
in between!  Nice way to avoid being pedantic :-)

Valmiki


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