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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Gordon still in talks over media committee-Juhel BrowneThursday, November 27th 2008Government is still pursuing former CCN chairman Ken Gordon to head a proposed committee on media standards. Public Administration Minister Kennedy Swaratsingh has now been called in to join Information Minister Neil Parsanlal to encourage Gordon. In an interview with the Express yesterday, Gordon confirmed he...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
It's lucky Information Minister Neil Parsanlal is no longer a journalist and hence is not judged by the standards he set for the media in the harangue he delivered in the Senate last Tuesday. Fairness, balance, accuracy-all the virtues he prescribed for the media were conspicuous by their absence from his diatribe, as well as other useful qualities such as coherence, consistency and common sense....
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... have any response." Also contacted on that aspect of the poll yesterday, Information Minister Neil Parsanlal said he had been out on his constituency for the day, and only caught a glimpse of the headline yesterday morning before going out in the field. "I have not read the article in any detail and, therefore, for me to comment at this point in time would be premature," he said. Opposition...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Every voice has the right to be heard through what is now a $650 million media industry, "in accordance with the laws of Trinidad and Tobago," Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) President Dominic Beaubrun said Friday night. Beuabrun's comments came in the wake of Information Minister Neil Parsanlal's announcement last week that Government had approached former...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
We are sure that Information Minister Neil Parsanlal, with his background in the media, will have a better than average understanding of the workings of the media, particularly the history and characteristics of the print, radio and television media. We are certain also that he must understand now that he is a member of Government he, in our tradition, is very much bound to a political discipline...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Parsanlal further accused sections of the media of being apolitical and an apparent "Opposition" to the Government. "It is a known fact, Mr President, that there are sections of the media who have judged the present Opposition in this Parliament, weighed them in the balance and found them wanting; and in that respect, have decided to assume the role of the real Opposition to the Government. That is...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... fact is it has not been done for the past couple of years," Gordon said. Information Minister Neil Parsanlal had announced the proposed committee of media practitioners in the Parliament on Tuesday as he maintained his previous position that the Patrick Manning administration is not anti-media. Gordon said yesterday there are two aspects concerning broadcast media in particular that must...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Information Minister Neil Parsanlal says the Patrick Manning administration "is not anti-media" and is not seeking to go to war with any of the nation's newsrooms. "The Government needs the media as much as it needs the Government," Parsanlal said yesterday, as he again responded to the fallout over Manning's decision to visit a radio station recently. Parsanlal, who is himself...
