An Incomplete Investigation
Dear Guardian Media Investigative Desk, Everything fell flat, after two days of "exciting" coverage about tax dodgers. You guys had me, finally, anxious to be in front of the TV for the CNC3 News. I usually switch between you and TV6 at 7PM, because as a journalist myself, I have to read, listen and analyze almost everything. I am sure you can imagine how tiring and depressing that can be, given the stuff that we are reporting on daily, for broadcast news. You know, like international war, gangs and guns and murders here at home and in the Caribbean, extreme weather and geopolitical shenanigans. It requires deep thinking and decision making to write broadcast news for people who are stressed and depressed, near angry or outright violent. And who do not want to listen to news, because it just adds to the bad news in their daily lives. Anyway, I say this to explain also that the news readers are looking tired, even when they start a newscast. Especially Ria, whose eye...