What should have been a police investigation into a domestic violence matter in Chaguanas this morning turned into a cocolooks measuring competition between rival television hosts, Inspector Alexander
Media Monitor: A bevy of Guardian gags and CNC3 gaffes but who gets the last laugh?
You laugh. In spite of yourself.
Photo: CNC3 trio (from left) Bavita Gopaulchan, Jesse Ramdeo and Kalain Hosein.
Raucous mid-morning laughter had also filled the Guardian newsroom way back in the 1990s as the word got around. Crime ace Francis Joseph had reported that a man who had been shot dead was buried alive the next morning.
And it had somehow managed to get into the day’s paper.
But if it’s any consolation, it’s not just here in T&T that stuff of that sort occurs. From a media source in the US of A came a similar report about the sister of CNN’s Don Lemon. It seems that, three years ago, she ‘unexpectedly died after drowning’.
Media Monitor Pt 4: Still sticking it to readers in the time of Covid-19
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.