Thursday, December 04, 2008

Someone did report...

I should have caught this earlier, but I was too busy reading the blog style unreferenced posts on some of the stories on one of the city's largest papers. Worse, on its front page. I mean, what I write on my blog might be a stream of consciousness sort of thing, but I do believe that I have some sort of standards - you know a bit of basic facts, maybe a couple of examples or five or a quote of some sort when I do a story with my byline.
Anyway, referring to this post of mine - here is what The Hindu had to say (and kudos for carrying the story, most other papers shied away). Little wonder then that blank expressions are the order of the day in a particular South Delhi office. And this little group on Facebook had over 2100 members and counting when I last saw it (which is 1400 more than her 'fan club' on the same site). I must clarify that I am not a member, though I am on Facebook, and I may not agree with all the sentiments expressed by members of the group (though some I do wholeheartedly agree with but those are probably political inclinations if nothing else). Somehow I think it will be unbecoming to join the group.
Anyway, on another note, there is an Indo-Pak journalists forum in Singapore in a few days, some senior journo's who were scheduled to attend have cancelled, but one senior journalist, the political editor of a leading daily, a man who recently made the former home minister of the country look like a super-star in an interview is still attending. Not surprising. Not surprising at all!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

EchTee has reported it. Carried a denial by her boss. And also a defence by the V. Huh.

Anonymous said...

Wednesday's edition of DNA had a front page report of Admiral Mehta's allegations and Barkha's rebuttal. Very balanced kind of piece.

The Hindu had done a stenographer's job much to the pleasure of this saffron flag bearer who usually despises the Hindu.

hc said...

am fine with u criticizing ndtv or any other channel but always see this hatred for ndtv in u :p anyways i think u missed the gud part abt ndtv in this whole thing..there was a live debate between srinivasanjain and vikram chandra abt showing live footage of the commandos blasting grenades into the TAJ..other channels showed it and ndtv dint..and form then on they had a 15 minute delay in broadcast in images from the scenes unlike other channels..respect that atleast..u might find another theory abt that but i saw it and i think this self control/regulation needs some kind of applause...and just to make it clear am not related with ndtv or any media organisation in any way ..am an engineer ..clearing ti before u start some new theory

Anonymous said...

It's time you started reading the Express.