On 10/4/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More halfbakery from the Time of India, and some clueless hack called
Shoban Saxena, who doesn't seem to have figured out Sturgeon's Law yet.
I wouldn't normally spend time on this kind of stuff, but the
following quote was too delicious to resist.
[snip]
Bloggers claim in their hifalutin tones that they want to give a
voice to the voiceless and replace the newspapers with their
journalism. It sounds good, but look at the way they are doing this.
Their vision is apocalyptic and their language is acidic. It's good
fun, but this is no journalism. Learning and mastering good
journalism is tough.
I think the poor guy is just trying to convince himself that all the time
he wasted in college learning "journalism" was not wasted. ToI employs
a lot of people right out of college who know very little about journalism
and even less about writing well. Don't believe me - just read the
ToI - Mumbai edition. It shows. Most of the paper is not worth it's
weight in waste paper (raddi). You get a lot of it about 150-200 pages
in total everyday (inclusive of special/classifieds/Mumbai Mirror).
On another level, he is just trying to save his job :-)
-- Vinayak
