Posts Tagged “media outlets”
Let the layoffs begin
by sinistra on August 31, 2008
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 (…)
The T&T Guardian needs more than a cosmetic change
by sinistra on June 13, 2008
For the sake of my blood pressure, I try not to read the local newspapers. This is difficult, given my obsession with news and media and my day job as a reporter, and more often than not I succumb. And (…)
Says who? (or, why bylines matter)
by sinistra on March 21, 2008
Trinidadian newspapers infuriate me. I’ve already written at length about their lack of a systematic corrections policy, and the superficiality of much of our reporting; today’s bugbear is their casual approach to bylines. In the context of a newspaper article, (…)
