Monday, July 07, 2008
Regarding comments
I get why people have very strong opinions about the guy (and we know who we're talking abou), but please understand that I cannot publish some of the comments even if I agree with the points raised. Yes, I totally agree that HT will rue the day that it started to hire ABCD's but until you guys tone down the comments a bit, I'll have to leave them unpublished.
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It may look strange people have strong views about Pankaj, because he was always polite and courteous. One reason could be that they thought an undeserving man was foisted on top of them at HT. Two, he never once asked people who were quitting why they were leaving, if he could do something to convince them to stay. He seemed indifferent that so many old hands were going. It hurt those who quit even more. Then he did away with conventions of journalism, and stories became secondary to jazzing up the looks of the paper. He did away with decency in behaviour as editor by his affair with the Sports Woman, and even in office hours he had time for no one else. He called people 'bodies', which was clearly offensive and disrespectful, even if he may not have meant to be. A clash of cultures perhaps, and a very bad experience. By the time he left, most people were looking for jobs. That's why he was so disliked.
What is this obsession that you guys have about the word 'body'? This is the third or fourth time that I am seeing a mention of it in the chargesheet against the man, and I am frankly mystified. Heck guys, a 'body' is merely a person in a team, that's all! It may not be common usage (though I do know several people who are not ex-managing editors of Delhi's second largest daily, and still use the word), but it is definitely neither offensive nor disrespectful. I mean, the man also used the word 'kid' for everyone from Ishant Sharma to old man KK, and once everyone had gotten over the initial shock, they took it as some kind of weird idiosyncracy and simply ignored it. Hilarious images the use of the word conjured up... he once called big, fat, bumptious Kalbag a 'kid', for example...
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