To Goanet - 1) I don't buy any of the Goan newspapers since I am convinced they are all compromised and corrupt, purveyors of paid items masquerading as news. Imagine my surprise then when I descried Herald at a Panjim café this morning with its front page featuring a beaming Raul Fermandes (its Director). The blurb said that he has been declsred the "Media Personality of the Year" by the Business Goa magazine.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I mean, here is a publication that has been subjected to a sting operation by a real journalist Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, that allegedly revealed that it was routinely planting fake stories masquerading as news in exchange for cash. So while the publication is under a cloud of corruption, we have its owner crowned "Media Personality blah blah." You can't make this up! A quick Google search revealed that Business Goa magazine is run by Harshvardhan Bhatkuly and Rajiv D'Silva, apparently young(ish) fellows. All I can say is, the next generation of Goans is turning out to be as rotten as the one currently screwing Goa. The torch has passed. 2) Don't the fellows (including Dr Wilfred D'Souza) who are pimping for Mamta's Trinamool Congress have an atom of self-respect? I mean, have you seen the toilet that is Kolkota, or the misery that is Bengal? And this Bengali party is going to do good by Goa? At least aim for a national party, if you must. But a miserable Bengali ragtag outfit? I hear that all the ticket rejects from the Kangress and BJP are lining up at the Trinamool trough hoping for left-overs. r --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------