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Dear Miguel Braganza, If there is any sarcasm in the questions you have raised over my mail I have missed it. I thought the answers to the questions you ask were obvious. Never mind if I have to say the obvious if it needs to be said. Here are the answers. >If the Government stops releasing advertisements >to a particular newspaper, it is no new thing. >oHeraldo has suffered the same fate in the >past...and has >overcome it, and grown. Of course the Herald has grown without government ads. But Goa's New York Times has remainded a govt mouthpiece conveniently denying the public what it wants to know for fear of losing its assured ad revenue. >Gomantak Times can definitely do that. They >have to step up their marketing and mop up other >sources of ad revenue. The Sakal Group can print and sell the paper for another 100 years for a loss. And how they mop up other sources of ad revenue is also not the point. The point is if the Sakal group decides today that they need the govt ads and stops writing anything that Mr Parrikar and Co are not pleased to read, then some facts that we got to know would never have been told to us. And if all the newspapers decide to be govt puppets for govt ads, dear Miguel, you know how that would be for those who depend entirely on the newspapers for their news. >How does the interest of a newspaper become 'public >interest'...the basis for a PIL ? I am at a loss to >understand. My Dear Miguel. I am a tax payer. And if the government is misusing my and other tax payers money to promote his private interest (papers who get the Govt ads don't utter a word against him. This is what I call private interest) then is it not a fit case to file a PIL seeking equal distribution of Govt ads for all local newspapers. At least that will make them free to say what they want to say without any fear of losing. Freedom of the Press, for one thing, should mean the press should be free to write what it has to without losing on govt Ad revenue? Tony Martin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
