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EPASA Slams Government for Stopping Crime
By The Boss on Feb 12, 2008 | In Media | 1 feedback »
The board of directors of EPASA, publishers of El Panama America and La Critica, has unanimously slammed the Torrijos administration for "being too active stopping crime in Panama."
"La Critica, the flagship of our company, depends entirely on gory pictures of murder victims and bloody traffic accidents," vice-president Rosario Galindo told Bananama Republic over the phone.
With more and better trained police and an increasing number of special operations in high crime areas, the supply of visuals for the troubled newspaper is drying up. "We may have to start using old material," Galindo said. "Readers won't notice anyway."
"God forbid that they start making traffic safer too," said Fransisco Arias V., president of EPASA. "We depend now almost entirely on traffic accidents for our daily display of dead meat."
Reduced violence and safer traffic in Panama may affect other sections of the newspaper too, Arias explains. "Our reporters are not trained to cover anything but bloody mess. It will be costly to train them to report on actual news."
"Also, our culinary section with its immensely popular cannibal recipes will be history if the current trend continues and our typically low-income readers are no longer able to score cheap meat in the streets."
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