Ashley Do Rosario's 'Tuesday Tickles' in the Gomantak Times today had some interesting things to say about Goa's media under the subtopic 'Radia and the Media'.
Referring to the media -corporate cosy-cosy which have made the reputations of the likes of Barkha Dutt, Vir Sanghvi and Prabhu Chawla look pretty dirty, he writes, "The story is no different here in Goa. Long before the 'paid news' syndrome came to the fore through the likes of P. Sainath after the Maharashtra Assembly polls, the print media in Goa had already mastered the art in the run-up to the 2007 Assembly elections here. 'News Analyses' (sic) with unknown bylines dominated the front-page space in most of Goa's dailies then. And happily playing ball with their marketing departments were all our honourable editors. Exept one - Derek Almeida - who then headed the GT and had gathered tahe courage to tell the bosses 'As long as my name appears as editor, an ad will be an ad and news will be news.' -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal, Moira, Bardez, Goa, India E pinto...@gmail.com or ypinto...@yahoo.co.in P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350