Luckily I was not reading news papers for the last 20+ years, except when
friends give me some links to read... Apologies to the journalists ...


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:43 PM, ranju radha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> but i have a different expereince. as a young journalist, i encountered an
> instance when my village friends asked me wht do u do now. I said; " i work
> in a newspaper as reporter"
> they laughed and said; "..dont write lies"
> i think readers have their own ways of looking at news. that s why some
> read manorama and others deshabhimani or mathrubhumi
> we know very well wher to get OUR KIND of NEWS which is TRUE and REAL
>
>
>
> On 7/7/08, renu ramanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> true. but majority of the newspaper readers do not engage themselves in
>> debates about 'real' or 'fake' or 'fiction' or 'objective.' for them news is
>> just news and in 99 percent of cases, they just believe what they read.
>>
>> renu.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:56:46 +0300
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: THE NAZI-GATE!
>> CC: [email protected]
>>
>>
>> similar thought i meant when i said the fake news will rescue the 'true'
>> news from being manifested as 'fiction' and will further
>> authonticate them as 'real' and 'objective'.
>>
>> both go hand in hand. so, no need to worry about fake news as renu
>> ramanath did.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:27 PM, ranju radha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> could NEWS be 'real' and 'objective'?
>> news for me is not less than a fiction
>> after all it s construction/representation of the"real"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM, salimtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> some 'fake' news at times may do good that they will authonticate the
>> other news 'real' and 'objective'  :D
>>
>>
>>   On 7/7/08, *renu ramanath* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>> did anyone in greenyouth notice the media scam that broke out on july 1 in
>> the national newspapers following a report on 'arrest of a former top Nazi
>> colonel in Goa'?
>>
>> it is quite intersting. the details are here, in these blogs and sites -
>> i first came to know of it from this blog Going Anon and 
>> Anon<http://anonandon.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/printers-devil/>.
>> The press note that arrived in the major newspaper offices in India on last
>> Monday evenng had announced the capture of a former Nazi who was hiding in
>> Goa. The press note was from 'Perus Narkp,' 'the intelligence wing of the
>> German Chancellor's Core.'
>>
>> Some 24 hours after the story was splashed by Goan and the national press,
>> doubts began to circulate about the authencity of the news. It was a fake
>> news created by Pen Pricks <http://penpricks.blogspot.com/>, a group who
>> works as a media watch-dog mainly in Goa, as a test dose to the journalistic
>> practice of the mainstream mediahouses of India ! The next day, they came
>> out with the truth, giving in detail how they had 'created' the news and how
>> the media lapped up it with relish, without fail.
>>
>> While some of the newspapers have taken the item off the web, it is still
>> there for 'Deccan 
>> Herald,'<http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jun292008/scroll2008062976017.asp?section=frontpagenews>
>>  'Times of 
>> India<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Cops_stunned_over_Nazi_mans_capture/articleshow/3178643.cms>,'
>> 'The New Indian 
>> Express<http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20080629000956&Page=K&Title=Southern+News+-+Karnataka&Topic=0>,'
>> 'The Indian 
>> Express<http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Nazi-war-criminal-arrested-near-Goa-airlifted-to-Berlin/329280/>.'
>> 'Asian Age,' 'Telegraph,' (Calcatta), and 'Deccan Chronicle,' have taken the
>> item off.  'The Hindu,' is not seen on the list. May be, they 'missed' the
>> story and the concerned editor may have raised storm over the editorial
>> meeting over 'the miss,' true to 'The Hindu,' fashion !
>>
>> In this context, I remember a news story that appeared in Malayala
>> Manorama some time back. A NRI business man from Kerala, who had set up an
>> animation company (forgot the name), died due to cardiac arrest while flying
>> from Australia to USA. The Manorama story opened with a sentimental note,
>> the rough translation goes something like this - 'when the plane took off
>> from the airport, (the son's name), did not think his father, sitting in the
>> next seat, was slipping off to the final sleep...' The next day, alongwith
>> the reports on the funeral, there was a correction from the family that the
>> son was not accompanying the deceased man ! Flights of Fantasy from the
>> editorial desk !!!
>>
>> So, please pause for a second before lapping up our morning newspaper !
>>
>> Renu.
>>
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