Media Monitor—Pt 5: The Chacon St collapse; why I don’t read the Newsday
Thackoor Boodram. Remember the name? I do. Not because he is—was—important to me but because journalism is—was—important to me.
New Year’s Day, 1 January, 1998. Guess what gift one of the daily papers in Trinidad and Tobago offered on its front page? Why, a man’s head.
Image: Don’t lose your head…
It had been found at the Caroni Cremation Site! Yes, just the head, a ‘decapitated head’ as reported many times over by the local media. As if you can cut the head off a head since ‘decapitate’ has always meant ‘to cut off the