hi everybody,
i am no great fan of 'deshabhimani.' and, its not a newspaper i'd like to see first thing in the morning. yet.... i don't think this is any 'strategy,' but a sub editorial 'mandatharam,' that merits inclusion in journalism text books. hope at least some of green youth members have heard about the famous '100 sleepers were washed away,' news. according to the version i have heard in my journalism class, the blunder happened to a sleepy sub editor in kerala kaumudi, years back, during the days of teleprinter news service. the sub in charge of night duty got this news about '100 sleepers washed away,' the guy excitedly translated the news into a front page screaming headline in malayalam, something like 'urangikkidakkunna nooru per olichu poyi' which means, '100 people who were sleeping were washed away in the rain and floods.' in fact, the 'sleepers' in question were 'railway sleepers,' in some north indian village or town. the next morning, the sub woke up to find the screaming headline in his own newspaper alone and the real story, in a small single column in inner pages, in all others. the story goes that the guy never set foot in the office again, send his resignation letter by post and left for bombay or delhi ! another 'funny' story - malayala manorama once reported the death of g.a.menon, founder and chairman of toonz animation, of a cardiac arrest in a los angeles bound flight from singapore. the manorama story contained a tearful description of how his son, who was sitting in the next seat, never realised his father had slipped into the final sleep until he tried to wake him up for getting off the plane, so on and so forth. the next day, along with the news of his burial in the us, the manorama carried a small 'correction,' which said that mr. menon's son was not with him in the flight ! some sub editor who happened to think that mr. menon's son was in the flight, got his fancy unfurled ! and, nothing to tell of the arun nayar - liz hurley hullabaloo. when the model and small time star liz hurley and the Uk-punjabi business man arun nayar's engagement was announced, manorama decided immediately that arun nayar was a malloo nair and the headline read, 'hollywood nadi malayalathinte marumakalaakunnu..' (hollywood actress to become kerala's daughter-in-law.' this time, no 'correction' was ever found. Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:15:23 +0530 Subject: [GreenYouth] Fwd: Deshabhimani aadine pattiyakkumbol From: gsunil...@gmail.com To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com hi, this seems a blunder made by comrades' pindicate but it proves the usual strategy of marxist media work, AADINE PATTIYAKKAL. _________________________________________________________________ Missed any of the IPL matches ? Catch a recap of all the action on MSN Videos http://msnvideos.in/iplt20/msnvideoplayer.aspx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
