St. Maarten Private Eye

It's still the first choice of people on SXM and the Today STILL prints about 5000 papers less than the herald..STILL makes crucial mistakes and STILL struggles to verify some facts in their story. If you want to say the Today does a better job at sensation journalism, yes they do. The Herald plays it more careful. Why? Because as much as we want to bash TDH, they are smart enough to realise that SXM is a puny market, where everyone knows everyone and people's toes are much longer because we are so small. In other words, TDH turns a huge profit and keeps most of its advertisers because it refuses to setp on toes UNTIL it has all the facts from the relevant authorities. Which is the right way isn't it? Is there some softer reporting when they do have all the facts? Maybe. But can anyone say that's never the case at the Today? Didn't think so. The Today goes ahead full steam and publish stuff. What happens is you turn people off, they pull advertising and you'll never be able to catch the Herald in terms of influence or production. The Today's machinery is from the stone ages, the paper is dirty which makes the quality look like a cheap flyer. The Today is taking the same road as the now defunct Guardian (same owner too). In short time the paper will fold. And then what? We're gonna sit here and talk about how it it WAS? But TDH will still be here because they understand the economic involved. It's a whole other discussion topic, but I think journalism in the TRUE sense of the word, with all its principles, could never be practiced here on SXM. Sometime I think we forget the puniness of our coummity and the limits that comes with that. Concerning the quality of journalists, I agree TDH has slipped backwards from the Koelega's, Granger's, and Hokstam's.