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Annals of appalling reporting, Trinidadians and alcohol edition

18-Sep-09

A friend forwarded me the following Guardian story, which was published on Friday with the sensational headline: Trinis drink more alcohol than water—Hospedales In a word, awful. In two words, bloody awful. Any more words and this post will no longer be fit for children. But as I am of late attempting to be constructive [...]

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This is not the time to not know what you’re talking about

19-Sep-08

Several months ago, I bemoaned T&T’s “apparent lack of reporters who actually understand business, finance, law”. The absence of sufficiently qualified finance and business reporters from the halls of T&T’s newsrooms is even more galling now, as the global financial crisis deepens. And make no mistake, it is a crisis – one that few people [...]

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Let the layoffs begin

31-Aug-08

The global financial system and the world economy are facing unprecedented challenges, but you wouldn’t know that if you only read Trinidad’s so-called “newspapers.” There has been an almost complete lack of coverage of the meltdown that started in the US housing market, other than occasional Pollyanna-esque comments from government and the Central Bank that [...]

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