Detonator Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 ^ Firstpost made a very nice article. Good news may be the news sites are calling themselves as "media scums" and "Uncouths" :giggle: The ‘exclusive’ tears of Deepika Kumari You tune in… you wonder what made the person cry; you wonder who made them cry and you wonder what it’s all about. It’s even more compelling when a famous person is shedding the tears. You tune in… you stay tuned in. It’s a formula that certainly works for saas-bahu serials. Unfortunately, some sections of the Indian media seem to think it will work on news channels as well. On Tuesday, the cameras continued to roll on even as one of India’s best sportspersons, Deepika Kumari, broke down in tears. They showed no mercy, no compassion and all they wanted was an exclusive, if it was to be the tears of the athlete that make up the exclusive, so be it. Deepika Kumari was forced to deal with an over-aggressive media. Getty Images Deepika, the star of the Indian women’s recurve archery team that won the gold at the Wroclaw World Cup in Poland, along with Rimil Buruily and L. Bombayla Devi, was much in demand during a media interaction at the residence of Archery Association of India (AAI) president V.K. Malhotra. And as it usually happens, everyone wanted an exclusive with the star of the show, Deepika, who at 18 is a World Cup champion and is now ranked No. 2 in the world in her sport. The news channels demanded one-on-one interviews after the media interaction. One cameraman followed every move of the archers, forcing Deepika to request him to move away and let her eat breakfast with the team coach. Instead of acceding to the request, the cameraman taunted the 18-year-old, saying Deepika should actually be grateful for such media coverage. Deepika along with the remaining members of her team, Buruily and Bombayla, tried to do as many interview requests as possible. But then with time running out and the team scheduled to fly out to Aurangabad in the afternoon, they requested the remaining TV crews to conduct combined interviews instead. That’s when things went downhill. A couple of reporters insisted on ‘exclusive’ sound bytes. Then a reporter accused Deepika of being arrogant by refusing to talk individually to everyone. That’s when the 18-year-old broke down. But it might make sense to perhaps ask: what does it take to make an athlete cry? In most cases, one would say it would be injury, defeat or triumph. Wiping her tears, Deepika said she had not slept for more than 24 hours, had a headache because she had not eaten since morning and was rushing to catch a flight. The AAI officials tried to calm tempers and even attempted to get Deepika to continue with the interactions, but she was in no state to talk coherently. Instead, they should have sent the media scampering. Shouldn’t India be grateful to its athletes? At what point, did they start believing that the media makes the athletes? Maybe Deepika and the rest of India’s athletes should follow Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s lead and not give any exclusive interviews to anyone. Some might argue that Dhoni and cricket can make do without the media. But other sports need the media to help highlight the triumphs and the needs of these sports. However, giving in to such pressure cannot be the answer. The demand for one-on-one interviews isn’t new. Though the point of it is rather lost – the questions usually are the same that were asked in the press conference. And most of them don’t even know the sport well enough — they are not beat reporters. Of course, it reduces the workloads of the reporters and the editorial pressure as well. Editing becomes easier, you don’t have to give a voice overs, you get a ready package – it really is over and out stuff. But is that reason enough to badger anyone into tears? Who knows… at the end of the day, the editors might have been happy with the TRP ratings the tears got them too. But was it worth it? The journalists constantly invaded her personal space and when she objected, they argued their case — not with logic but with threats. How can that ever be right? How can that be anything but a shame? Indeed, some channels need to stop worrying about exclusives and show a little decency instead.
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Detonator Posted September 17, 2013 Posted September 17, 2013 Hindu’s Tamil newspaper starts with over 500,000 copies Launch features front-page story on Jayalalithaa launching state-owned mineral water brand S. Bridget Leena Thousands of copies of the new daily could not be distributed because of protests by newspaper hawkers that the commission offered wasn’t sufficient Also Read ‘The Hindu’ to launch Tamil newspaper on 16 September After Kolkata, Chennai to be next newspaper battleground Updated: Tue, Sep 17 2013. 09 18 AM IST Chennai: Kasturi & Sons, publishers of The Hindu newspaper, on Monday launched a Tamil daily under the same title and logo. Priced at Rs.4, the Tamil paper put on its front page a story on Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa launching a mineral water called Amma Mineral Water for Rs.10 that is produced by a state-owned firm. The report was accompanied by a photograph of the chief minister, who is called amma (mother) by her party members and admirers. The company’s 135-year-old English newspaper, which costs Rs.3 on weekdays and Rs.4 on weekends, meanwhile, carried a lead story on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav facing the people’s anger in riot-torn Muzaffarnagar on its front page. The 44-page inaugural edition of the Tamil paper had 10 full-page advertisements from companies such as Bajaj Electricals, SRM University, Puravankara, Chennai Silks, Nalli Jewellery, NAC Jewellery, Olympia Grand Days and Poorvika Mobiles. The Tamil paper also carried a single business page that contained translations of reports from its financial daily, The Hindu Business Line. The newspaper started with a print run of 525,000 copies. Thousands of copies of the new daily could not be distributed because of protests by newspaper hawkers that the commission offered wasn’t sufficient. For The Hindu, Kasturi & Sons pays 20% commission per copy. Executives in the company said the hawkers were asking for 40% commission to distribute the Tamil paper. “It does not smell like a Tamil newspaper nor does it have local news. It looks more like a translated newspaper and does not have gossip,” said Rohin Marc, a Chennai-based media consultant, offering his first impression of the paper. “At first glance, it reads more like The Hindu, although the paper quality is not as good as that of its English counterpart,” said Vijay Bobby, general manager at rival Dinakaran. “We will have to see the newspaper after a week, when it settles on advertisement and content.” Publishing a newspaper is a long-term business and it remains to be seen whether The Hindu’s Tamil avatar will compete with Dinakaran, Bobby said. Dinakaran has 14 pages plus a supplement of four pages, while Dinathanthi, another popular daily, has 24-28 pages. “We will be different from the existing newspapers...and readers will know it is from Kasturi & Sons family,” said Arun Anant, chief executive officer of Kasturi & Sons. Asked about the difficulties in reaching the copies to readers, Anant said it was only at four or five places where agents sought increased commission to distribute the paper and had abandoned the copies. Readers in Nungambakkam, Thygaraya Nagar, Kodambakkam, Mylapore, Anna Nagar, West Mambalam and Aminjikarai did not receive the new paper. “We have been discussing with Kasturi & Sons to raise the commission paid to agents for over a month,” a distributing agent for The Hindu said, requesting anonymity. “However, they did not heed to our request. That is why we did not lift the newspaper today.” “There has been no communication to the dealers nor was the launch organised in a planned manner,” he added. “We will not pick up the copies.” Tamil newspapers such as Dinathanthi, Dinakaran and Dinamalar pay an agent a commission of 80 paise for each copy sold. This commission was fixed six years ago. Since then there has been no change but costs have gone up, said the agent cited earlier. “We will play by the existing market norms and not hike commission unless other dailies also do it,” said Anant. Almost 40% of Tamil newspapers are sold at newsstands while the remaining are sold via subscription. In case of English newspapers, the skew towards newsstands is 15%. Finally I can read a decent tamizh daily, sick of crappy dinakaran and dinamalar
FischerTal Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 I live there. :(( i went back after a long time. jersey city is an epic shytehole. i went to south jersey too, which is atleast bearable. my good wishes are with you so you can move back to berkeley one day :cantstop::icflove:
FischerTal Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 Maryland/va aka Washington DC. best. Not far if you are fan of NY. So you can easily travel there. Nice, clean, green Maryland, VA. If you like mountains we got that a lot too. If you like crowded place and find some other states too slow, offcourse it's not as busy as manhattan, but you will find it still pretty busy place to be. nah bro. socal is the best, especially if you live along the coastline in cities like encinitas or any of the beach towns.
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