Dear Augusto
Please allow me the liberty to decide the worth of the story I file. baaki mast raho Mayabhushan ------------------------------ On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 5:22 PM IST augusto pinto wrote: >Dear Mayabhushan, > > > The Herald picture was indeed questionable. But I feel the issue was not >really one which a person of your talents should have bothered about. >Essentially it was an error of judgment of a fresher journalist I feel, >committed after the Editor went to sleep. If some young journalist had >taken up the issue and earned some brownie points - it was OK. > > > But for a guy of your stature who has made 'maskerie' of the National >media and who has taken the local media for a ride on several occasions - >this story was not worthy of your attention. > > > You should keep your guns trained on the big guys. > > > Regards > >Augusto > > >On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Mayabhushan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/08/herald-gets-creative/ >> >> *Herald Gets Creative >> Posted by Mayabhushan Nagvenkar >> August 2, 2013 in Criticles, Critique | 0 comments >> * >> If you thought the announcement of the creation of Telangana by *The >> Times of India* was somewhat bizarre, you should take a look at the even >> more bizarre stunt by a Goa daily. *Herald*, one of Goa’s three >> largest-selling newspapers carried a re-created shocking photo-illustration >> of a mother jumping off a river with two children as the front page lead >> photo in its July 30 issue. >> >> The crude photo >> illustration<http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/epapermain.aspx?queryed=9&eddate=7/30/2013>was >> perhaps meant to accentuate and convey the tragedy which had taken >> place the previous day — that of a 35-year-old lady doctor’s leap to death >> from a bridge along with her two daughters aged 2 and 5 years of age. >> >> The illustration which carries the byline of the newspaper’s designer, >> Manoj Shirodkar, shows a woman wearing a pink *salwar kameez* and two >> children in the middle of a leap and in various stages of excitement. One >> can even see a hint of a smile on the face of the smaller child in the >> illustration, which has been slightly blurred for effect. But what’s >> unmistakable is the state’s most prominent Mandovi bridge in the backdrop, >> from which Dr Vaishali Kambli jumped off with her children in the wee hours >> of July 29. Their bodies were pulled out later in the day. >> >> The publication of the illustration has expectedly resulted in a slew of >> outrage in the social media. >> >> Writer Cecil Pinto said the newspaper owes an apology to the Kambli family >> and the newspaper’s readers. “This is a sad suicide and not a happy Sao >> Joao (a traditional Goan monsoon festival which involves jumping into wells >> as a mark of celebration)! I think the Editor of *Herald* owes not only >> the family of the deceased but also its readership a front page apology. >> Please forward this to your friends if you agree with me and also contact >> the Editor and convey your sentiments”, wrote Pinto on *Goanet*, one of >> the oldest mailing lists on issues related to Goa and Goans. >> >> A small front page >> apology<http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10130&boxid=165221531&uid=&dat=7/31/2013>did >> follow on July 31. >> >> Interestingly, the expression of regret, which was published in the top >> left column of the newspaper, was not attributed to the newspaper’s editor. >> The newspaper has also refrained from publishing a slew of emails which >> have been sent to it by outraged readers. Many of whom have taken recourse >> to sending the same letters to social media websites and other mailing >> lists. >> >> As Ethel da Costa, Goa Station Head, *Radio Mirchi* wrote “… today’s >> front page photograph of the unfortunate doctor’s suicide along with her >> two minor girls, is completely bad in taste. For the sake of sensationalism >> and alleged sales in mind, it is simply not ethical to portray a horrific >> incident in visual graphic, without keeping the sentiments of the readers >> and the families in mind”. >> >> The endemic rot which prevails in the newspaper industry to sensationalise >> even the most tragic or serious of incidents cannot be ignored. One could, >> though, expect that the editor of Herald would have displayed some >> journalistic integrity and apologised for this illustration. >> >> *Disclosure: The writer has worked for the Herald from 2000 to 2003.* >> >> [image: Contact >> Mayabhushan]<http://www.newslaundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Contact-Mayabhushan.jpg> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Mayabhushan Nagvenkar >> 1392, Anjuna, Bardez, Goa >> pin code 403509 >> # 7350131007 >> >> h <http://www.goastreets.com>ttp://www.penpricks.blogspot.com >> h <http://www.goastreets.com/>ttp://www.ardh-satya.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GoaJourno" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goajourno. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > >-- > > >Augusto Pinto >40, Novo Portugal >Moira, Bardez >Goa, India >E [email protected] >P 0832-2470336 >M 9881126350
