Preetu, you say that Nishtha Desai said she was misquoted but you haven't
elaborated on that - was this in the BBC article? Did she tell you she was
misquoted? Referring to Arun Pandey's quote, women who are trafficked include
minors - so it is still a paedophilia issue, besides being a wider
R. K. Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I sure had the courage to let
Mhambre know what I thought of him and have done it to his face.
Vidya knows it. And so do many of our ex-colleagues at the NT.
Cheers,
RKN
I have no idea what RKN is talking about. But if something was said and
Hi all, the URL in FN's message appears to have expired (would have, at the end
of that week), but this:
http://causelists.nic.in/goa/weekly/cl.html
seems to be generally accessible.
Cheers,
V.
Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Want to track possible legal stories
What about the integrity of the sting operators themselves? I haven't seen the
TV programme following such an operation about paedophiles in Goa - and for
that reason alone I suppose this will be shot out of the water sooner than you
can press 'send' - but I understand that in this case a
Mayabhushan, you forgot to quote my entire mail (it's not terribly long). The
part you left out:
quote(I anticipate flak for this but hope it doesn't get personal.)unquote
Would my statement be less or more valid, if I were in Mumbai, or Margao, or
Madagascar?
V.
Mayabhushan
I'm not sure what the term sting is supposed to mean, but concocting a
scenario and then writing about it as if it were news, is hardly journalism.
Where is the hard work that went into real undercover penetration by
journalists, which set the professional standard and the respectability bar
If bloggers are doing the job that journalists are *supposed* to do, and if
journalists (starting from newspaper owners and editors downwards, of course)
are concerned chiefly about the bottomline impact of their stories and not so
much about the story's intrinsic merit - well then, I guess
This has severe repercussions on the hard-won rights of women. Women
are leered at and jeered at. They are humiliated and treated as sex
objects. They are blamed for enticing men. Any woman or girl who is
sexually assaulted is equated to the woman, as projected in the ad,
who *must* have invited
Nice try, Rico. Under-reported, eh?
Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There seems to be a bad flu in town,
Wouldn't it be nice if we could read more health-alerts in our papers?
Maybe our newspapers could cover this, with tips on what could be done
to help reduce the intensity
