![]() We would hate to believe that Mr Abel would keep company, as it seems, with Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Henry IV who, when told that Antony had married another, threatened to treat the messenger's eyes as balls, eliciting the appropriate response: “Gracious madam, I that do bring the news made not the match.”įor Dr Abel, it is enough just to make a charge and his words, we presume, must be taken as gospel. ![]() It has to be addressed,” he declared.Ĭlearly, it was not important enough for him to take the time to define the glamourising of which he spoke, or to suggest how he would address that malady. We have to filter a lot of the reports that come through the media in regards to crime and violence. “All you have to do is look at what is portrayed at prime time, beaming into our homes with our children being exposed. “I think media plays a critical role and I think unfortunately the media in Jamaica has gone too far in terms of glamourising crime and violence,” he complained to Nationwide News earlier this week. In other words, the goodly psychiatrist, researcher and university lecturer, and a man no less to whom the media has been very kind, would be a fervent advocate of the shooting of the messenger who is the bearer of bad news, as in times of yore. ![]() If Professor Wendel Abel had his way, the Jamaican media would be under his orders about what content to disseminate to the public, at least in respect of crime and violence. ![]()
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