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		<title>Media Matters ~ Last Chance for a Last Post!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 05:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With only one more weekend to go before Election Day, it is just a matter of time before all the wind blows and the dust finally settles. There is still one more week for the media here to continue to play whatever roles it has ascribed its many parts and tentacles. Writers and talkers will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Media Matters ~ Information as Ammunition!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 05:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It used to be said that the pen is mightier than the sword. It still is but today both have changed: wars are no longer fought with swords and writers no longer use pens. The message and the messenger have transformed, as has how news is gathered and delivered. The tools of the journalism trade [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Matters ~ Fifth Columnists and  The Fifth Estate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 05:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in the first quarter of the 19th century, when Edmund Burke referred to the Reporters Gallery in the House of Commons as The Fourth Estate, he never imagined his description of The Press back then would still be alive and well some two hundred years later, all the way across the Atlantic in these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Matters ~ Labouring on the Fourth Estate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 05:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Much troubled water has flowed these past few weeks under the bridges linking the press and the public. The President of the Media Association claims the government and ruling party are out to collectively punish the entire local press &#8211; through him. Ditto the best-known daily afternoon English-speaking talk show host on island. Each made [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Matters ~ Between brass tacks and bull shine!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 05:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you.” When the flamboyant American Larry Flint uttered those words in 1988 as publisher of the Hustler magazine, he never thought his words would be used by The Freedom Forum to promote Freedom of Speech as guaranteed in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Matters The Press and Elections 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh how things change when elections are approaching. Normally ‘okay’ people can suddenly become normally abnormal, saying what they don’t know, even repeating what they don’t believe. And some will actually just lie, as if it’s normal to lie for votes in election politics. In the past few months, every effort has been made here [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Michael rowed his  boat into The BookYard!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2016 05:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I had several reasons to be happy. The main one had me feeling honoured to be honoured. Another took me on both a nostalgic and futuristic trip: Down Memory Lane and Back to the Future. Being inducted in Saint Lucia’s Hall of Fame has its rules of entry. So, while on my week-long [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Matters: Glasshouse of Babel?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2015 07:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who is an Editor? And who is a Talk Show Host? And what does it take to be either? In Saint Lucia, it all depends on who’s asking. And who’s answering. That’s the inescapable conclusion you’d arrive at – that is, if you only knew what yardstick some (in the media) use to measure who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Matters: Hoping Against Hope?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 06:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eons ago, long before local IT-enhanced editors and announcers discovered what’s become their nearest mutual admiration club platform in the clouds, I started this column – right here in The STAR. The intention back then was to encourage local media colleagues to write (and not just talk) about media issues locally, regionally and globally. Getting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who saw what in 2014 that others will miss in 2015?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last year’s Scrooge of a Storm robbed us of Christmas. The STAR’s headline the next weekend described Christmas Eve night as ‘Silent Night, Scary Night’ and Nasha Smith’s page 2 piece was aptly entitled ‘Twas the Nightmare before Christmas’. I haven’t seen the STAR’s 2014 post-Christmas headline (due and expected this issue). But, Que Sera [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The ripple effects of our disaster coverage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t unusual to read and hear and see confusion during the unexpected weather phenomenon that turned our white Xmas dreams into a dark Christmas nightmare. That’s the kind of chaos that comes with emergencies, whether predicted or not. We’re never actually ready for anything of the kind – no matter how prepared the emergency [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our i-Reporters made me proud!</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/our-i-reporters-made-me-proud/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Neither a hurricane, nor a storm, it didn’t even have a name. It was just rain, rain &#8212; and more rain &#8212; almost ceaselessly, over the longest continuous period we can remember. From Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, it drowned hopes and left many with nothing but wet dreams of yet another dry and happy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mandela – A story without end!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 18:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Journalists the world over who had anything to do with anything about Nelson Mandela went into overdrive Thursday night after South African President Jacob Zuma announced that the global African icon had died. Those fortunate enough to have interviewed him had their replays, those who attended his press conferences recalled the questions they wanted to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are journalistic degrees automatic entitlements to higher pay?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can sound so intolerant of substandard journalism or reporting as to appear to think that everybody else always gets it wrong. It’s probably because I choose to highlight more of the things that pain me than the things that please me about local media matters. But that doesn’t mean that all I see [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What makes me glad,  what really makes me mad!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earl Bousquet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2013 18:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two articles I read at the beginning and the end of the past two weeks rubbed me both good and bad, made me both glad and sad. In the middle of an eternal flight across the Pacific and the Atlantic, I read a TIME Magazine review by Lev Grossman of a book by Dave Eggers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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