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
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OUR OBSCENE TRAGEDY editorial to which the Guardian devoted its front page on Sunday 7 February?
The following day, the Express devoted both its front and back pages to continuing outrage and public protests over the most recent killing of a 23-year-old The UWI graduate. And contrary to everything Fundamentals of Reporting teaches, the logo on the bottom of the front page read, ‘The Kidnapping & Murder of Andrea Bharatt’.
Photo: Andrea Bharatt, 23, went missing on 29 January 2021. Her lifeless body was found in the Heights of Aripo on 4 February 2021.
Media Monitor 2: An Obscene Farce! St Vincent St, Independence Sq, Memory Lane and and Shit Street
Two words, no more. But I know I heard controlled anger. I know I heard complete disbelief.
“You mean you read (
she used the present tense) that Sunday Guardian editorial,” she said, her voice almost breaking with the effort not to lose control, “and only see grammatical errors?”
Photo: Mourners at a candlelight vigil.
I know I heard unconcealed contempt in the last two words. I don’t know what is the opposite of empathy but I know I heard it in those two words as well. It was very clear that she would be mortified to find herself in that hellish place which must be home to anyone who can be hard-hearted enough as not to be moved to tears by Our Obscene Tragedy.