TT: They don't know book and don't care about chapter

SAYING that all was not well with the media in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday appealed to media houses to "get their act together".

Manning said there was not only a need for "a school of journalism and media training" but "the development and incorporation of an appropriate and workable code of ethics".
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According to Manning, many lives have been put at "considerable disadvantage, almost destroyed through careless, reckless and irresponsible work" of many journalists and that often those who are negatively affected "have no redress, and that is not democracy".
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And Manning also slammed the media and journalists organisations, saying it was "not enough" for them to "insist only on the right of journalists and related practitioners to freedom of the press and freedom of expression". Manning also said that "there is a responsibility to insist on standards".

"To my mind the real challenge in Trinidad and Tobago at this time might not be that of press freedom as much as that of quality," he added.

Ouch!