Earl Bousquet

Media Matters ~ Last Chance for a Last Post!

With only one more weekend to go before Election Day, it is just a matter of time before all the… Read More

8 years ago

Media Matters ~ Information as Ammunition!

It used to be said that the pen is mightier than the sword. It still is but today both have… Read More

8 years ago

Media Matters ~ Fifth Columnists and The Fifth Estate

Back in the first quarter of the 19th century, when Edmund Burke referred to the Reporters Gallery in the House… Read More

8 years ago

Media Matters ~ Labouring on the Fourth Estate

Much troubled water has flowed these past few weeks under the bridges linking the press and the public. The President… Read More

8 years ago

Media Matters ~ Between brass tacks and bull shine!

“If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you.” When the flamboyant… Read More

8 years ago

Media Matters The Press and Elections 2016

Oh how things change when elections are approaching. Normally ‘okay’ people can suddenly become normally abnormal, saying what they don’t… Read More

8 years ago

When Michael rowed his boat into The BookYard!

Last week I had several reasons to be happy. The main one had me feeling honoured to be honoured. Another… Read More

8 years ago

Media Matters: Glasshouse of Babel?

Who is an Editor? And who is a Talk Show Host? And what does it take to be either? In… Read More

9 years ago

Media Matters: Hoping Against Hope?

Eons ago, long before local IT-enhanced editors and announcers discovered what’s become their nearest mutual admiration club platform in the… Read More

9 years ago

Who saw what in 2014 that others will miss in 2015?

Last year’s Scrooge of a Storm robbed us of Christmas. The STAR’s headline the next weekend described Christmas Eve night… Read More

10 years ago

The ripple effects of our disaster coverage

It wasn’t unusual to read and hear and see confusion during the unexpected weather phenomenon that turned our white Xmas… Read More

11 years ago

Our i-Reporters made me proud!

Neither a hurricane, nor a storm, it didn’t even have a name. It was just rain, rain -- and more… Read More

11 years ago

Mandela – A story without end!

Journalists the world over who had anything to do with anything about Nelson Mandela went into overdrive Thursday night after… Read More

11 years ago

Are journalistic degrees automatic entitlements to higher pay?

Sometimes I can sound so intolerant of substandard journalism or reporting as to appear to think that everybody else always… Read More

11 years ago

What makes me glad, what really makes me mad!

Two articles I read at the beginning and the end of the past two weeks rubbed me both good and… Read More

11 years ago

Media Matters

Actually, I’m ‘off island’, half-a-world away from home, and two St. Lucians the same place I am, told me Thursday… Read More

11 years ago

Sanford-Belle understands local plight

Her name may hardly have rung a bell when she first hit the local TV screen—understandable, in a country where… Read More

11 years ago

Dame didn’t deserve damning!

Sometimes things happen that you can do nothing about, save to wish the reality was otherwise. I feel that way… Read More

11 years ago

Long Live Jon!

Long Live Jon: the fruits of his loom are well planted in our national soil!   A friend called early… Read More

11 years ago

Whitney’s last song . . .

Last Saturday evening, my friends and I were imbibing local spirits, savoring seafood delicacies in the yard outside my home… Read More

12 years ago

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