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I hate what's become of the Indian Newspaper Industry. The rot has intensified ever since The Times of India was sold to a business family that would mortgage their fingernails if they got a good quote. There are full page advertisement spreads on the front page! Imagine waking up to DLF Housing instead of Another septuagenarian president(that's another crazy one i can't explain). When i was a young boy, I was encouraged to read the paper. "It'll help you think and build stong character", they said. Yeah right.All this, when number of pages has been on the rise constantly. What are they filling the pages up with, I wonder. And despite the increase in the number of dailies, the readership for most has been on a constant rise. Is the common man obsessed with banality? There's more verbiage in the papers than most educated readers can digest. But what's the alternative? Every new daily promises 'thought-provoking' and delivers trash.
Oh! What's with the use of puns in headlines? Sample these:
Nadal baits Fish with ease
Phonetastic Cheryl
Something's 'fishy' in designer bags
All this in one day! If i read the headline that goes 'Sen'sation one more time, I swear I'm gonna rip the paper to shreds. They use it freely for anyone from Sushmita to Amartya.
There's one saving grace, though. Thankfully, the editorial page on the Sunday Times has been untouched. Should any of these 'cosmetic' changes affect my weekly dose of good information, I promise, I will resort to arson.
posted by chandru @ 4:08 PM
1 Comments:
OMG I completely agree with you. I almost canceled my TOI subscription
during my stint in Bangalore. Oh come on there is only so much I can take of abhiash or whatever they are calling them these days. Really is this front page worthy news!
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