Mr Frederick Noronha said : An idea of building a "people's daily"
was actually tried out in Goa. It was called NOVEM GOEM. Anyway, one
could mention the experience of the barely-concealed
BJP-floated daily Marathi newspaper 'Gova Doot'.
While it did reward some pro-BJP reporters with fancy posts, I hardly
see such a one-sided propaganda organ as a solution to the issues
attempted to be raised earlier. That's just my view. Would be glad to
be proven incorrect.
My response :
1 ) Thanx for providing a link to the Novem Goem debacle. I feel that
was an amaturish attempt with a dependance on charitable funds ( and
the resultant lack of accountabilty ) and no provision for the continuing
funding required if a risky venture like this was to survive the initial
turbulence faced by being in a competetive market.
Although an interesting story , it is not related to the model I proposed.
2 ) Regarding Goa Doot , I think you are not entirely correct in your
assessment. This piece of trash is nothing but a blatant propaganda
machine for the BJP ( and the source of funding , whoever denies it ,
must be from that political party ...or those who support it blindly )
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron.
The same can be applied to a Goan rumourmonger weekly with the
word BJP being replaced with anti-BJP.
Once again , the example you provide is not even remotely related
to my model.
If you have any further thoughts on the idea I have floated , I would
love to hear more from you. Meanwhile , may I remind you of some
outstanding queries I have about another post you made :
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-February/069529.html
regards,
anand
( Dr Anand Virgincar )
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