(In honour of the late SN columnist Arthur Allan Fenty, who authored a column on Fridays in this newspaper for 30 years, Stabroek News will be running some of his earliest contributions. This piece is taken from the December 8th, 2000 edition.)
Believe me, today should have been my editor-approved day off – probably for shopping but since I’m broke I decided to keep my nearly eight-year record intact.
And I just could not resist comment regarding the strange bedfellows of the local media coming out over the past weeks.
This season of goodwill towards all men certainly brings out the best (?) in even sworn enemies, it seems. Mind you, to me it is not at all any goodwill. It’s elections campaign time. Now, and for the first quarter of next year. It’s pure media politics. It’s just alliances of convenience, commerce and survival.
