i don't think afthab's brain will be so fresh ! after all, he watches the
malayalam television channels, at least asianet, and worries his head off about
the sexist moral policing of the media. also, he worries about the role of
mathrubhumi in the 'chaara' case. why can't he filter the news and separate the
facts and fiction in this case too ?
renu
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:44:00 -0700> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: THE
> NAZI-GATE! tehelka article / Cutting Edge Lazy Journalism> From: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> > > If one knows how to 'read' a
> newspaper, I dont think it is difficult> to filter the real and the fiction.
> The mistake is that of reading the> paper in the conventional style and I
> dont think that people who are> seriously interested in facts, figures and
> real things, just read the> paper in that conventional style. They have other
> sources, another> world of communication and reporting where dissident voices
> are being> heard, alternate opinions are aired and printed, and more over
> the> omnipotent cyber space, where they can have the stint of the real.> >
> let these priestly pen pricks go on with their pricking. and i am much>
> surprised to learn that people like afthab are real..without reading a>
> newspaper for more than 20 years..his brain would be fresh, i hope.> >
> regards> rajeeve> > On 14 Jul, 01:04, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Cutting Edge Lazy Journalism> >> > SANTOSH DESAI> >> >
> “YOU WOULD THINK a press release about a Nazi war criminal named> > Johann
> Bach being caught in the jungles of Goa after trying to sell a> > stolen
> 18th-century piano would be worth double-checking”, begins> > Jonathan
> Allen’s post in the Reuters blogs. He is of course,> > commenting on the
> astonishing gullibility of the mainstream Indian> > media in swallowing the
> claim made by the intelligence agency Perus> > Knarp (super Prank) with the
> motto “Eht rea enp cabk skripc”, (The Pen> > Pricks are back) without
> bothering to double check the facts. As the> > blog points out, it took 0.13
> seconds to verify that the concentration> > camp that Bach allegedly ran did
> not exist. And yet, The Indian> > Express, The Telegraph and Deccan Herald
> ran the story, each adding> > some embellishments of their own. As another
> site points out, no> > newspaper has apologised, with The Indian Express
> blaming the hoax on> > faulty local intelligence and The Telegraph hedging
> its bets by> > claiming that ‘some blogs ‘ have described the story as a
> hoax. The> > real winner in all this is, of course, DNA. The paper ran the
> story a> > full day after it was revealed to be a hoax. Gives the whole idea
> of> > lazy journalism a cutting edge.> >> > The media storm over Shinchini,
> the young girl allegedly traumatised> > by the harsh criticism offered by
> judges at a reality show continues.> > In keeping with the new protocol of
> news making, channels blazed> > judgement first and facts later. What is
> noticeable is the desire of> > all parties to exploit the full sensationalist
> potential of any event> > before any facts can arrive to temper its potency.
> So, not only did we> > have the channels and the newspapers going at it,
> do-gooding activists> > were not to be left behind. The blame game expanded
> beyond the> > producers of the show and the judges. TOI reported NCPCR’s
> Sandhya> > Bajaj ‘not ruling out stringent action if the parents were found
> to be> > overzealous in pushing their daughter to perform’. What action,
> pray,> > that might be? Arrest them? Confiscate their daughter?> >> > HT’s
> luxury rag, Splurge, carried a photograph on its front page> > captioned
> ‘Model Navina Bhatia is seen in the company of a Rolls Royce> > Phantom
> dressed in a Christian Dior creation, with a limited edition> > Karenina
> bag’. As a summary of what the supplement carries, that’s a> > hard one to
> beat. The main newspaper meanwhile carried on its front> > page a report
> about “City Prepares to party with Bollywood’s Hottest”,> > a straightforward
> plug of a marketing promotion for HT City> > masquerading as news.> >> >
> Finally, Rakhi Sawant is back. The monsoons have arrived. Let the rain> >
> dance begin.> >> > Desai is the MD and CEO of Futurebrands.> > [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> >> > On Jul 7, 12:26 pm, 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'?> > > .co.in/cnk/cnk.do- Hide
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