Panaji: Lokmat’s Editor Raju Nayak has rubbished the popular notion that newspapers will vanish in near future due to increased coverage of digital media and also pandemic situations like covid-19.
Talking to Goanewshub on its interview program, Hub Encounter, Nayak also said that the newspapers are important to cut out the fake news that is pushed several times through various social media platforms creating unnecessary panic.
This is what he told on our interview program:
“We have never seen situation like this, so our response has to be guarded to it. Right from first lockdown when some politicians purchased the essentials in wholesale and sold it at the higher rate, till recently, when private hospitals were not entertaining the DDSSY, we have been exposing the lacunas in the government set up so that they can be corrected.”
“If media was not there, the issue of lack of oxygen at GMCH has never been highlighted. Goa is a small state and still we can’t manage it?”
“I fully know that those who are suffering from covid can get anxious if he reads constant negative news. But that does not mean we should stop writing. We are also publishing some positive news hailing covid warriors.”
“We, at Lokmat, trained journalists about covid. The unofficial training was given to the journalists to understand covid.”
“People will not stop buying newspapers. People still want the broadsheet in their hand in the morning. Initially there was impact of covid, the government had stopped newspapers during initial lockdown. But than group of editors went and met CM and convinced him that newspapers do not spread covid.”
“Last one year, the number of prints of newspaper has gone down but it will pick up.”
“Covid may continue for another one or one and half year. people will have to learn to live with covid.”
“My generation has seen climate change and so many new phenomenon. This is biggest calamity that we have seen during our lifetime. It is also important that we are witnessed to this calamity.”
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