The media is commercial and knows where its bread and butter lies! The headlines are atrocious and although the truth is mentioned in the write ups below and so we cannot report them for action to the Press Council/ take them to court etc to haul them up for false reporting. People only read headlines in today's busy world.They also censor letter to the editor and only print those in line with their stand etc.The powerful electronic media builds up false news sometimes by repetition, or asking wrong leading questions for expected answers and so on . We have to shift through the chaff and this is becoming more and more difficult!
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:50 PM, augusto pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > The media coverage of the Goa elections ensured that the ill-effects of > mining which are many, starting with the destruction of our water sources, > was completely ignored by the media commentators, interviewers and the > election candidates too. > > This was particularly evident in the TV coverage by the Goa channels. > Discussions started with the presumption that the stopping of mining was > bad. Even when some candidates did make a point that there were other > stakeholders in the mining controversy who were being affected it was > either drowned out or I suspect edited out. > > I can understand the mining and media barons who want to project this line > but I would have thought that the journalists and at least some of the > candidates who are also Goans would have understood the danger of what they > were doing. > > Augusto > > > -- > > > Augusto Pinto > 40, Novo Portugal > Moira, Bardez > Goa, India > E [email protected] > P 0832-2470336 > M 9881126350 >
