As a connoisseur of fine music, the headline startled me out of my wits, for it clearly harks to a love gone sour to the point where the woman dumps the woman. "Could the unthinkable have occurred?" I wondered, in a daze.
As one who reads between the lines, I quickly gathered my wits, allowing my eyes to dance down through what the brain eventually deduced as diatribe dominated by a screaming banner.
What banner? The one, reproduced below, saying, "HIT THE ROAD, JACK!" If you click on the picture, you will get to read the actual August 7th 2011 Sunday Express article it introduced.
Headlines inherently sensationalize -else few would be tempted to read what they foreshadow- but real journalists do not rely on headlines to stay in business -else local weekly rags would dominate the printed media landscape. True journalists sensitize, not sensationalize.
So, the only conclusion I may make of this "Hit The Road, Jack" caption is it represents what appears (better yet, is alleged) to be a concerted effort by dark forces to bring the Kamla-led administration to its knees (which warlords in days of yore did, the easier to lop off a head), for, rather than sensitizing its reading public of the meat of the issue -the establishment of a Cabinet-committee to facilitate the project - the publishers of the Sunday Express opted to sensationalize over a prudent norm long-practiced.
Heck! the East/West Corridor Highway Upgrade back in the 1970s and '80s involved a multi-disciplinary Cabinet-team and none fussed over its appointment or work! Ent, Peter?
If it wasn't sensationalism, the publishers wouldn't have relied on innuendo to defend their hyperbolic banner argument -for instance:
"Sources told the Sunday Express that since the splitting of Warner's ministry there has been some strain and "hidden tension" at Cabinet meetings in Port of Spain.
(ibid)
What sources? And, if the "tension" is hidden", how did such "sources" detect them? Maybe "sources" ought to be appointed Commissioner of Police? Or, maybe Julian Pena is up to her old tricks? But, that's sensationalizing!
Innuendo can be just as damning as hard evidence; but while both have to overcome proper and full scrutiny if they are to be accepted, the former rarely does -the overwhelming majority of the time the innuender is a also gossiper (one who delights in seeking to augment their importance in he overall scheme of things by spreading derogatory stories of others, especially others whom they abhor).
Hard evidence has led me to deduce the above -for donkey years the Express Newspaper has been ill-disposed towards Jack...and a leopard does not change its spots.
Before I forget, the citizens' need to be sensitized of the truth of matters led me to make this commentary!
I gone!
Richard Wm. Thomas,
kid5rivers.com
Five Rivers,
Arouca,
Trinidad and Tobago.
As one who reads between the lines, I quickly gathered my wits, allowing my eyes to dance down through what the brain eventually deduced as diatribe dominated by a screaming banner.
What banner? The one, reproduced below, saying, "HIT THE ROAD, JACK!" If you click on the picture, you will get to read the actual August 7th 2011 Sunday Express article it introduced.
So, the only conclusion I may make of this "Hit The Road, Jack" caption is it represents what appears (better yet, is alleged) to be a concerted effort by dark forces to bring the Kamla-led administration to its knees (which warlords in days of yore did, the easier to lop off a head), for, rather than sensitizing its reading public of the meat of the issue -the establishment of a Cabinet-committee to facilitate the project - the publishers of the Sunday Express opted to sensationalize over a prudent norm long-practiced.
Heck! the East/West Corridor Highway Upgrade back in the 1970s and '80s involved a multi-disciplinary Cabinet-team and none fussed over its appointment or work! Ent, Peter?
If it wasn't sensationalism, the publishers wouldn't have relied on innuendo to defend their hyperbolic banner argument -for instance:
"Sources told the Sunday Express that since the splitting of Warner's ministry there has been some strain and "hidden tension" at Cabinet meetings in Port of Spain.
(ibid)
What sources? And, if the "tension" is hidden", how did such "sources" detect them? Maybe "sources" ought to be appointed Commissioner of Police? Or, maybe Julian Pena is up to her old tricks? But, that's sensationalizing!
Innuendo can be just as damning as hard evidence; but while both have to overcome proper and full scrutiny if they are to be accepted, the former rarely does -the overwhelming majority of the time the innuender is a also gossiper (one who delights in seeking to augment their importance in he overall scheme of things by spreading derogatory stories of others, especially others whom they abhor).
Hard evidence has led me to deduce the above -for donkey years the Express Newspaper has been ill-disposed towards Jack...and a leopard does not change its spots.
Before I forget, the citizens' need to be sensitized of the truth of matters led me to make this commentary!
I gone!
Richard Wm. Thomas,
kid5rivers.com
Five Rivers,
Arouca,
Trinidad and Tobago.
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