I am not surprising myself today – my penultimate piece before our May 11 D-Day-when I am finding it challenging to write on something different and relevant at this time. Perhaps from some different perspective as well.
The scores of letters to Editors, news features, commentaries, analyses, editorials and columns fill the print media with views on you-know-what. What ‘new’ should I contribute? Tough to find something not yet explored. So I have opted to repeat a few observations on the use of the media, especially our newspapers, during this rather robust campaign season of 2015.
I think it was either the academic David Granger or WPA advocate Nigel Westmaas who wrote a useful piece on the history of Guyana’s newspapers. It showed how the Planter-class and the colonial administrators used the earliest print media to promote their interests, before those
