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Hi
why you started Comment moderation?
please let others speak...truth or lie...It should be the open platform
True, Let us keep the site running in a professional manner.
Masala stuff is good, but too much of it will cause indigestion.
Let us have more news, not views.
DT
Thanks Vikram, you finally agreed to my point.
Sunil
The entire blog seems to focus on media personalities, their exit, attack on personalities and TOI. I really do not understand your intentions. I am sure you are experienced enough to understand that mudslinging never make people change or created best practices in any industry. ( Too much on Kinsuk, JS and Ram).
Also you may agree with me that media products have evolved as brands and lifestyle products. The element of “jourulalsm” is repositioning itself in today’s media world.
TOI as a brand has grown beyond editors, response heads and editorial mistakes. In fact it has grown beyond Pradeep Guhas and Jains. When PG left blogs likes this and media analysts predicted dooms day for TOI. A contingent of experienced journalists and salesmen marched behind PG and left TOI to join DNA. Today 2006 December 8th you and I know were DNA stands and TOI continues to rule all key markets.
Good journalism is a need for all newspapers and its not only for TOI. TOI, DC, Hindu..all have their own drawbacks and needs to improve in many aspects. (Ex: Despite a good editorial product Hindu is more or less a communist mouth piece – so can I suggest as a national newspaper Hindu should be politically neutral ? )
Thanks to the blogmanagers, for imposing censorship, on the comments section (Like what Indira Gandhi did during emergency). Also, it’s great to see those who are surprising and wanted people to talk in “Cultured” manner, “Sophisticatedly”, “Modernly”, “Nicely”, “Smoothly” etc...etc. This they argue that some bad guys/gals are resorting to mudslinging (specifically, relating TOI), on the assumption, that it will never make people change or create best practices. What a great vision... and change!
But, may I ask those reformers, how cultured, nice, sophisticated it was, when some one occupying the seat of bureau editor or chief, stealing, hoarding, hiding even press notes and press invites coming to a newspaper? This is, with the sole intention of projecting the junior scribes (in their initial days, months of entering into the field of journalism with dreams, ambition, to achieve and to prove their talent) in a bad light. To trouble them and to project them in the eyes of editors, management, HR’s, that they were good for nothing and responsible for a series of missing's every day. Not enough, armed with such fudged and concocted performance reports, these “lift-irrigation journalists”, forced the junior scribes, to put in their papers. Tell us, is it not taking away the sacred right- a civil right, a legal right, a constitutional right and a human right – The Right to Life. Kill the talented, to climb the top. The result was- young people leaving the field of journalism, concluding, this field belongs to the insane and it’s the insane and bandicoots that alone are crowned with coveted seats of bureau editors or whatever, here (in TOI). You wann me to prove it? Ask those editors worked before JS in TOI, why on a fine day, all those junior scribes trooped into their chamber and said “We can not work this way, even press notes and invites are not reaching us.Either we or he”. Talking about it is bad, mudslinging, masala, personal attacks…?.Wow, does...the field of journalism is truely an insane one?
If you compare TOI with DNA, certainly it’s the ruler. How, English is an international language. But, 50 % in the world donno what its alphabet look like. 60% or more donno how to speak in it. But, it’s ruler.
Similarly, of the 600 and odd districts in the country, people in 50 % of the districts have never seen what TOI looks like. 60 % or even more, never read TOI. This was a fact nearly before independence (when TOI started its journey in this country) and even on today. Yet, it’s the ruler...no problems...let’s enjoy ignorance for after all it’s the power. But, blogs like this are becoming increasingly popular across the world. This is the out come of media's failure to reflect their voices, their aspirations and in addressing their concerns.
U know? The revenues generated by 1/4 of the blogs on the web are greater than World's no-1 broad sheet newspaper, TOI's annual turn overs.
Wow....even press notes and invites?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Now we understood what's ailing the TOI. Such people are worse than HIV virus.
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