Goans need to explore media alternatives for information

There is a strong rumour doing the rounds about a Digu aide
purchasing 34% stake in Herald. Not at all surprising if it turns out to be
true. The planting of domesticated editors of the mining lobby in Herald is
itself a pointer of the objectives. Intellectual poisoning of the Salcette
Goan. This must be read with the press report about the Election Commission
checking the nationalities of voters in Salcette Taluka. Their eyes have
been carefully set in destroying or confusing the last bastion of the Goan
people. The assault is three pronged; TV, newspaper, cultural centres and
EC. Goans, of Salcette particularly, need to understand the larger game plan
and turn to alternative sources of information other than Herald and mining
controlled TV channels. Consumer power needs to be demonstrated because
after all it is the circulation and viewership that brings in the commercial
and political domination of the publishing houses.
Goans need to patronise only those newspapers that employ Goan editors.
Goans need to reverse this trend of being taken for granted by the economic
and political forces in the State. Goans should not fall for those crocodile
tears shed by Editors over the plight of Goa and Goans.