Despite the fact that the New York Times syndication service is subscribed to by several large newspapers in India, including Mint, I doubt this article will ever see the printed page in India. The relevant passage is highlighted below.
“Some very simple practices that you often take for granted, such as being ethical in day to day situations, or believing in the rule of law in everyday behavior, are surprisingly absent in many situations,” said Raju Narisetti, who was born in Hyderabad and returned to India in 2006 to found a business newspaper called Mint, which is now the country’s second-biggest business paper by readership.
He said he left earlier than he expected because of a “troubling nexus” of business, politics and publishing that he called “draining on body and soul.” He returned to the United States this year to join The Washington Post.
All I can say is - Ouch! But then again, why am I not surprised. Expect a lot of bitching about Raju emanating from KG Marg very shortly.
Due thanks to Mr AR! And the post headline is from an 'anonymous' commenter.
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There is the other Raju from Hyderabad, one Ramalinga, who made Satyam, a.k.a. Truth, a household word across the planet.
After hogging fat dollar salaries and being significantly ignorant of local practices, you can always go back to the land of the Green Card to hold forth on ethics.
FYI: 'For expats homecoming not a cakewalk' - Pg 17, the TOI, 29/11,(Mumbai edition at least) - of course minus the highlighted passage (It would have added, lets just say, too much 'colour' to the copy)
interesting that he talks about the nexus, which i am sure exists in india.
but he went back to washington post, which itself become embroiled in a controversy after new york times did a series of expose on the newspaper's paid dinner for lobbyists for access to its journalists.
this is one link, but there were several other stories too, including by the WP ombudsman if i am not mistaken.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/washington-post-cancels-series-of-salons-charging-lobbyists-for-access-to-its-staff/
but if u just google this, you get more interesting stuff.
http://www.google.com/search?q=washington+post+katharine+weymouth+new+york+times+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
just to say that nobody should have a holier than thou shawl wrapped around them.
Yes! t is indeed...
The article has appeared in a couple of newspapers minus the RN quote.
Well, that is true. Having worked for HT media for a while, the nexus is all to apparent. The beat reporter concerned has to do things which are not in the professional domain of journalism. Many of these cater to the whims and fancy of the top shots in the organisation.
At least, somebody has pointed it. Narisetti did it after leaving the organisation. Wish, he had done it earlier while working there.
For the HTiites (reporters), it is a fact and matter of life. Nothing to protest about.
Thats a chicken-shit K.... Read this ...
http://www.counterpunch.org/sainath11302009.html
Sainath has done some good work.
Deccan Herald ran the piece in Monday's edition with the two paras in question. Very likely it was completely inadvertant but let's give them the benefit of the doubt!
Being a staffer of the organisation, one does not know how long will the nexus continue. There is undoubtedly an unholy nexus. Somse senior editors are there just to take care of the logistics and not for editorial work. Mediocrity, rather than editorial excellence prevails.
You'd love to read this - http://blog.livemint.com/edspace/2009/11/25/why-an-editors-blog/
and here is sukumar's reaction:
http://blog.livemint.com/edspace/2009/11/25/why-an-editors-blog/#comment-24320373
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