What I read on the TOI online version today morning is incredibly funny, informative and at the same time equally pathetic. I am not sure, if this news article was on the front page of the print version as well, but to have it on the front page of the TOI website written in big bold letters gives it plenty of eye balls for sure.
This is how the heading goes:
' INDIA QUIETLY BEGINS COMBAT DRONE PROJECT ' (Read the article here)
When you go through the article, a number of times the project is described as a top secret project for the defence authorities. I wonder, if the project was so secretive, who gives TOI the right or freedom to go and publish all this information for the common man to read. If DRDO (Defence Research and Development Authority) has gone ahead and given statements to the media/TOI, that is further stupidity on their part.
Ironic is TOI's title of the news item. Read between the lines, and you would notice 'QUIETLY', whereas, TOI has been screaming out loud about the news on its website.
TOI online editor, the time is ripe for you to quit..
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Sidharth Mehta
from the Emirate of Abu Dhabi - UAE.
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yes.. you are spot on with this.. i read the same article in the print edition and i was also quite aghast that if it was this top secret how is TOI printing it with such details..
ReplyDeletepathetic journalism..
Haha... TOI is losing all the standards nowadays. This is the most remarkable, though as an individual act, it's one of carelessness more than that of lack of quality. But, then, you indeed have to question the quality of the editing of a newspaper which posts a provocative headline "2 parts for Hindus, 1 part to Muslims" after the Ayodhya verdict, which has unnecessary cricket coverage on the front page for 15 days in a row, when it made sense just 3 days, and a part of whose website (known as "editor's choice") is just short of a porn magazine.
ReplyDelete@ rover and @ tanay - thanks for the comments.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Tanay. I had the same thoughts when I read about the Ayodhya verdict on TOI. Rather had commented on that story on their website, but couldnt put it on my blog....
Bang on regarding 'editor's choice'..... i have seen stuff uploaded on their website with the blurr effect.... never seen a national daily do that!.