Deepak's Blog

How low can a newspaper go to make its sales grow ? Definitely News reporting in India today has touched a new low point! I hope the the Time of India has stopped its “NIE” (Newspaper In Education) scheme before reverting to these sleazy means of selling its paper. Parents after reading today’s newspaper would definitely think twice about asking there kids to Read Newspaper.

I remember the days when I was in school and we used to get Newspaper from school under the NIE, after getting complaints from parents about the unacceptable material getting shown in the Magazine section, our school management (a conservative lot) decided to do away with the Magazine portion and only keep the Main newspaper for circulation.

After reading (or rather looking) today’s newspaper I am convinced newspaper reporting and editorial-ship has dipped to a new low. Every body today’s knows the quality of News getting reported on so many 24 hour  NEWS channels on Indian television. Don’t even want to comment on the Indian TV NEWS channel because it has a potential to become a blog page itself! Newspaper industry has surely gone one-up on every one today, setting up a new bar of shame and crossed all boundaries of censorship.

sleaze in newspaper TOI 05/10/2009

The image that you see in the blog entry is of today’s Times of India main newspaper page 13. Reporting about the raunchy sleaze parade that is underway in Nice, France. The objective SAVE Environment for better future. I wish I could understand what the editor wanted to report by showing such revealing images and publishing them in a news daily. (The size of image is deliberately kept to  a minimum.)

Newspaper reporting was considered a noble profession, there still are many good articles that get written and many interesting stories that one can only find in a newspaper. But this type of newspaper editorial is cheap stuff and is condemnable. Hope some action is taken against the Editor of the Newspaper.