"How to read the 'farin press'"

WHEN LORD Laro did Foreign Press in 1975, he was speaking about how his country is portrayed by foreign journalists and their penchant for highlighting the negative.

I fully understood his sentiment a couple decades later, in our latest go-round of the gas riots. Sure, it was bad, but when I looked Jamaica in the 'farin press' I saw JDF armoured vehicles patrolling a flame-filled street representing the entire country. Which it certainly did not.

Unfortunately both local dailies, The Observer and The Gleaner, give us daily doses of the 'farin press' every day, taken directly from the wire services (AP, AFP, Reuters) and slapped on the page. Said 'farin press' presents a view of the world that is representative of the biases of the reporters themselves, as well as their editors, as well as the entire society.
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