On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > I (and a few other silklisters) stopped subscribing to The Hindu > Doesnt make me think that N Ram is going to care, any more than he cares > about having run a decent paper into the ground with his favoritism, > communism and a bunch of other isms, damn him
hserus, I think you doth protest too much about the communism slant. Take this piece from yesterday's Business Line, for example: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/2010/05/13/stories/2010051350020100.htm "The world is its oyster What does it take to set up a city that is envisioned as a self-contained work and living space? BrandLine visits Mahindra World City near Chennai to find out.." Would a left-leaning newspaper provide such unvarnished advertisement thinly dressed as an interview? Or take this other supposed food review: http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article428165.ece Would you call that a fair/unbiased review of a restaurant? I can list many such infractions in reviews of shopping malls, theaters, restaurants, jewelery stores, etc. I find the lack of separation between the advertising and editorial sections of the newspapers much more disturbing. I can't see a semblance of the journalistic ideal in these fluffy "articles" and celebrity interest "interviews". Thaths -- "Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
