-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <while suffering from acute vertigo our media often loses its sense of balance. .. If the English-language papers have to be a little circumspect in what they put out -- after all, English-reading skills cut across all sections of society -- those at the helm in some language or script that only a section reads normally have a field day..[D]oesn't the media show signs of short-term memory loss [?] ..The term Fourth Estate comes from a totally differing concept, and refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues. .Newpaper managements, for the most, tend to lack vision and prefer to cosy up to those in power. Their other failings are a clear lack of vision, and a tendency to copy others...Clearly, the media has failed in its social responsibility of agenda-setting in a manner that helps Goa go ahead, rather than just tail-along behind lobbies and politicians, or play divisive games merely with an eye on boosting circulation.>[Frederick Noronha, "Goa's media: Too many blindspots"]
All this is by way of prologue to a strange piece in today's paper with a headline about aviation spread right across one of the inside pages saying one thing while the text says entirely the opposite! The facts presented moreover are at variance with what the paper itself published not so long ago (in fact just a few months ago) leaving us readers scratching our heads in bewilderment. The main problem however is that in the prevailing milieu about aviation problems in Goa, the article seems to completely miss the significance of what it is now saying. The upshot is that if what it is now talking about materialises (albeit in a dozen years as stated) then Dabolim civil aviation may be at risk not from Mopa but from the new airport reportedly coming up across the southern border! The paper is blissfully unaware of this prospect. As for Mopa itself there is now an editorial in this paper which suggests gratituitously that the Navy should have it and not civilians -- conveniently forgetting the tribulations of the past few decades at Dabolim! The underlying theme is that of wishing a pox on one's (communal?) rivals, in this case the fellow residents of (North) Goa! And this is after a sanctimonious editorial by the same paper just a couple of days ago fearing that "things [were] getting out of control" in aviation matters! I really wonder what social purpose papers such as this serve! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread the Christmas cheer - even when you're not here! Send Christmas Greetings to your loved ones in Goa. 2005 Christmas Package - Flowers, Bubbles and Layers of Love. http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/xmas/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------
