Trinidad & Tobago: Poor Coverage

An incident at Beetham Gardens in Port of Spain causes KnowProSE.com to take a look at the roles of both mainstream and new media: “Here's what I got from the media: some stones thrown, some gunshots, some tires lit…in what is categorized as ‘almost a riot’. From the social media, people were being robbed…pictures were hidden in Facebook, no video, nothing. In a time when everyone's mobile phone has a camera…this is what we got.”

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