Posts Tagged “Trinidad Express”

On badjohns, Brent Sancho and things in between

by sinistra on June 22, 2008

There is much about the local media that raises my blood pressure, but today’s feature in the Sunday Express on the origin of the word ‘badjohn’ is a beautifully-written exception. I’ll cite only the beginning, but the piece – written (…)

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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 (…)

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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, (…)

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