Do you'll guys appreciate the difference between inaccurate facts, "revisionism", and outright lies?
Without doubt, the example below could be called a case of inaccurate or loose writing, and poor fact-checking. With us who write for a living, it does happens. With some people, more often than others. Without intending to justify this trend, all that one can say is that it is far more prevalent in smaller papers, which have fewer hands to clean-up the 'copy', as against the larger media organisations that you'll are used to in the West. What is interesting to see is how even a mistake -- a silly one, if you will -- is being interpreted as some huge conspiracy to defame Portugal. It's pretty clear that Goa *did* have English-medium schools even fifty years back. It seems that quite a few were all established in the 1940s, for reasons which I haven't quite understood. (Early institutions like St Joseph's at Arpora and Mater Dei at Saligao came up decades earlier... and probably that's why Bardez had more migrants to the former British colonies, than other parts of Goa.) In the late 'nineties, when we at St Britto's (Mapusa) were observing the golden jubilee of our alma mater, we were pleasantly surprised to realise that a number of English-medium schools were also celebrating the same event themselves. If I recall rightly, it was Britto's bitter sporting rival St Anthony's Guirim (they always beat us!), the Jesuit-run clone in the south Loyola's, People's and maybe some of the older convents. I'm not sure about the names above, so please don't pillory me and read some conspiracy plans if I've got the names wrong, other than Britto's which I'm quite sure about. FN PS: People do check stuff before it goes into print. But they do it quite hurriedly. If more of you guys, who criticise all the time, had to be subscribing to these publications, one day they could hope to be as thorough with fact-checking as the 'Reader's Digest'. On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Rui Collaco wrote: > Just to state that my father was sent from Mozambique to Goa to study in an > English-medium school, in 1941, because he wanted to study in English! I > believe he studied in what was then the "People's High School", in Panjim > (forgive me if I am wrong, I did not check this with him). > One more example of how inaccurate facts or outright lies pass as > "information" in the Goan media! > Even my grandfather did his schooling in English, in Goa, (and in Salcete, > where he was born), before migrating to Mozambique in 1918. > > Rui Colla�o > > Lisboa > > > >From: Jose Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [Goanet]Did you know.....? New confident nonsense in the IGO! > >Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:18:36 -0800 (PST) > > > >http://www.rajannarayan.com/ > >Jan 24, 2004 > > > >In the article "GOAN GOING GONE" in the International > >Goan Observer, the following quote was noted:" Before > >liberation there were NO English medium schools or > >colleges in Goa" > > > >Based on the above confident nonsense, one would have > >to assume that Holy Cross Convent, Bastora; Holy Cross > >Convent, Siolim, St Thomas School, Aldona and Loyola > >School, Margao (to name a few) were in Pakistan! > > > >Alfred de Tavares......you have now been judged to > >have attented a NON-ENGLISH medium school in Goa! > > > >Thank you Rajan Narayan....for that Revision. You are > >getting there.....in the company of the Revisionists > >alright > > > >jc > > > >Doesn't anyone check this categoric stuff before it > >goes to print? ########################################################################## # 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 # ##########################################################################
