Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sorry, sorry, sorry...

Now say that as fast as humanly possible about ten times over, and you will get what I want to say. There was a good reason I decided to give blogging a break, the election results unfortunately having nothing to do with that. Frankly, I got bored, and I have been tweeting far too much. And my new Editor likes me a lot and promptly gave me more work than I could handle. He also sent me off to the Orient, which was nice but somehow my fingers have been churning out too much work.
That is no reason for coming back online to this place though. Maybe I needed a place I could come back to, where I could bitch and moan about my work-load, people and things in general. Yeah, some things on this blog will upset some people and other things will confirm the opinions of others. But honestly, I have never written with any malice intended towards anybody, well, sometimes, but not always. My alter ego is really doing a lot of work and I might even have something exciting planned on the side for a while, but more about that is it fructifies. And somehow that read like fruit flies. Ayways, lets back into business...
There are a half-dozen Rajya Sabha seats that open up in August - the nominated seats and according to the grapevine, at least one senior journalist, actually a very senior journalist whose growing bald patch (not the term 'patch' as against 'head') is seen far too often on UndieTV for everyone's good will be getting one of the seats. That and another one will supposedly go to an IT honcho who recently retired and has spoken about entering public life since he is bored of dictating books for other people to write (for him).
As regards the fiscal health of the media industry, things really haven't improved in May and the first half of June. Misguided investments are still dragginmg some companies down and others are having their own issues. Hitherto cash cows are now barren, and the girlie magazines which were always tarty, are now street hookers when it comes to advertisers. Heck, you could possibly afford an advert in most of them (save Vogue). Out on the internet people are still predicting the horrible 'daath' of the newspaper industry but I can't see the entire world buying e-readers anytime soon, though I will write more about that in a bit. The layoffs continue and the salary cuts haven't stopped, some people have been caught in the crossfire, but lets not carry on about it too much...
Plus, ET Now is supposedly launching within the next few days/weeks/months. Do you really care anymore?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Come out and tell us who this Ndtv journalist is.

scribbling ink said...

Isn't it Pranoy Roy?

Anonymous said...

Mr. bald patch -> Vir Sanghvi

Anonymous said...

Or is it Shekhar Gupta (head as opposed to patch)?

Anonymous said...

the bald chap on undie must be the v. or is it the gupta of ie? and anyone heard anything about a loudmouthed political editor from ech tee getting the media job at the pmo?