media madness - ,The Hiindu' misleading the public.

[sarang]

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This was the heading of the piece:
“BJP will nationalise NRI bank accounts to check hawala”

This was inside:

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said a key agenda of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), if it came to power in 2014, would be to issue an ordinance to nationalise all bank accounts of Indian citizens in 70 countries that permit secret banking of hawala-converted black money. This would net about $1.6 trillion for the government revenue.

See how the twist in title to mislead people and NRIs, and smear BJP and Swamy. Subramanyam swamy has already pointed this out to the hindu.
The hindu is a mischievous and partisan paper.

 

[vgane]

Dear Shri Sarang,

I wrote to them & they have corrected the caption as follows:

BJP will nationalise overseas bank accounts of resident indians to check hawala transactions: Swamy - The Hindu

 

[sarang]

Both titles exist in cyberspace.

Thanks for the feedback.

?BJP will nationalise NRI bank accounts to check hawala? - The Hindu

Dear Shri Sarang,

I wrote to them & they have corrected the caption as follows:

BJP will nationalise overseas bank accounts of resident indians to check hawala transactions: Swamy - The Hindu

 

[Anand Manohar]

Dear Sarang

Your observation is correct. I got the same feeling a few years ago and after experimenting with a
few other Dailies, settled in on TOI.

Now I guess the Tamil edition will only be an extension of "Murasoli" - doesn't really matter to me I
personally wont have anything to do with either the English or Tamil versions.

After being a 'loyalist' of The Hindu for decades, it was a terrible 'let-down' for me - I've learnt to move on.

Yay Yem

 

[sarang]

TV Today Network Limited apologizes to nityananda

[h=2]When sent a legal notice, TV today has capitulated and sent a letter of apology; copy of letter is circulating in twitter as no media will publish it.

"TV Today Network Limited, India, reported the airing of public apology to Paramahamsa Nithyananda on the Aaj Tak TV channel for having aired defamatory news item on Nithyananda.[/h]
In a welcome landmark move from the media, national television news channel Aaj Tak aired public apology to Paramahamsa Nithyananda for having aired a defamatory news item featuring the morphed video. In a written apology, TV Today Network Limited informed Paramahamsa Nithyananda that the said apology was aired on Aaj Tak on 18th September 2013 at 23:00 hrs and 19th September 2013 at 12:30 hrs. The media house thereby requested to accept the apology and take no further action."

 

[Brahmanyan]

Media madness - ,The Hiindu' misleading the public.

Dear Sri Sarang,

What you have written is correct. Many newspapers do the mischief of giving alarming Caption, which has no relevance to the news carried inside.

The Hindu has lost its credibility long back. Once I have been an ardent reader of The Hindu. I started reading The Hindu at the age of 14 and continued for several years. Even while working abroad, I continued subscribing for the paper. But The Hindu lost its moorings after the editing was taken over by left oriented secularists. BJP has become a red rag for this paper. Though The Hindu is never known for its Cartoons, most of the days the paper carried an anti BJP Cartoon or writing. Their columnists continued their tirade against rightist view on every subject. Even comments posted by readers have to pass through moderation. I stopped reading the paper out of disgust.

The Tamil Edition of The Hindu is yet to settled down. I have been following the paper in the net. But Tamil readership is different, if The Tamil Hindu continue their snail speed of giving news that they follow at present, they will be dismissed from the field, in no time.

Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

 

[Anand Manohar]

I am glad that Bangalore Brahma Sir himself - an eminent journalist with decades of media experience
in India and the Middle East is in sync with my opinion on The Hindu.

It may not be out-of-place here to mention that I know at least three very senior people working for The Hindu
[ eligible for free copies daily ] subscribing for TOI - paying for the subscription.

I guess only the attractive feature of The Hindu remains the "Crossword" . The publication seems to have found its
way to the ICU and being is sustained by life-support equipment such as ventilators [ read adamant loyalists ]
- the adjacent bed kept in reserve for the Tamil version.

Yay Yem

 

[sarang]

Even though there are separate sections for editorial, opinion and news, contents do not reflect this grouping. Editorial reflects the policy of the paper and management - fine. Opinion is invited from experts - that is also fine. But the news section should carry news without bias and must reflect facts as know, Every reporter has become an analyst, only reflects management view giving truth a wide berth and inserting biased impressions as facts. If facts are not favourable, they are suppressed or ignored. Opinions are flaunted as news.

 

[vgane]

I also find the pro left bias stinking....They should present all views both right and left and leave it to the public to decide

 

[Brahmanyan]

Media madness - ,The Hiindu' misleading the public.

Even though there are separate sections for editorial, opinion and news, contents do not reflect this grouping. Editorial reflects the policy of the paper and management - fine. Opinion is invited from experts - that is also fine. But the news section should carry news without bias and must reflect facts as know, Every reporter has become an analyst, only reflects management view giving truth a wide berth and inserting biased impressions as facts. If facts are not favourable, they are suppressed or ignored. Opinions are flaunted as news.

Dear Sri "Sarang",

You have reflected my view verbatim. This is the basic ethics of honest Newspaper to follow. Pick and choose of selective sentences out for context is an ethical crime. Again putting loaded questions and getting an answer in visual media is disgusting. Newspapers and News analysts should not think that the reader is stupid enough to accept what ever they publish honest truth.

Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

 

[Brahmanyan]

I also find the pro left bias stinking....They should present all views both right and left and leave it to the public to decide

No, not yet. They still carry the photo of six or seven members of leftist splinter groups carrying protest in MG Road, Bangalore but will not publish a photo of the gathering of several lakhs of people in Bhopal for Modi, other-day.

 

[Anand Manohar]

I guess there is no point in flaying it any more. Let somebody come up with a
lovely, poetic epitaph - which will essentially be an autopsy report.

R.I.P.

Yay Yem