Agreed. The news reporting process is changing from irrelevant to entertainment-focussed and ludicrous! Also, the herd-mentality is very strong. If one prominent TV channel reports it as a "story", everyone else rushes to track down the same, and we have a huge story out of nothing! Wonder how many Goanetters heard of 'Prince'? FN
On 24/07/06, John Eric Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The whole nation held its breath when Prince, the six year old boy fell down > a 60ft > pit, and was rescued by the army.There was absolutely no mention of > why/who dug the borehole and when.Why the neglect of covering it/placing > warning sign etc. What investigation and recovery of rescue costs and who is > going to be held responssible.And finally no mention of the brave individual > who actually went into the pit and rescued him. Instead an army Officer is > only highlighted.Consequently such incidents keep happenning all over the > country with loss of life or limb going unreported/punished/uncompensated. > There is something terribly wrong in governance and media reporting! > > JohnEric Gomes > > Alto Porvorim > > (Tel 2417837) -- ---------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOSFORALL: http://www.flickr.com/groups/pfdindia/ _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
