I was qouted in Express India...

[Sanjukta Basu]

...To my complete ignorance here
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Blog-Spot/318143/

Not a very great article and friend Priyanka has been misquoted too. Read it at your own risk :D

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[Snigdha Vinayak Das]

Very Mediocre peice of writing and what is this DBB?

[prashant singh]

Delhi Blogger's Block I guess

hmmm

ppl are being quoted and misquoted in news ..hmm we got quite a few celebrities here .

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[Twilight Fairy]

This one is a horrendous piece.. :|

Misquoted right from the word go! Dont know what to do abt this journo.. she kept on pestering me for pictures

from our meets.. and wasted 2 days of mine asking for hi-res pictures and in the end cooked up a story on her

own terms... and I cant even *imagine* someone writing stuff like kids need to take permission from their parents

to join this group!!

 

There was another journo in mail today who had misquoted me as saying that indian bloggers arent creative

enough.. i was fuming that this guy wrote that one sentence adn wrote to the edtor mail today. my mail got

published in mail today as letter to the editor (again something I learnt much later) and *even* there they

had tampered with my mail and published it making it sound like something very different from what I wrote.

They also fabricated my residence as Mayur Vihar, a place where I have stepped only twice in my life.

That experience has made me realise that it's totally useless trying to set them straight, though I plan

to write all this on my blog - the one place where I can write what I want.

and yes, DBB is Delhi Bloggers Bloc as Prashant pointed out (no K in that though Prashant :) ).

Snigdha .. it's the same group u were a part of when u were here in Delhi.. we rechristened it because

"Delhi Bloggers" is too generic and there are many clones out there..

 

2008/6/5 Snigdha Vinayak Das <snigd...@gmail.com>:

[Sanjukta Basu]

I know I was so damn confused to read that line... Kids need to take parental permission?? I was like WTF...really...when did this happen?

I got just one solution.... Stop reading them... blogging is the mainstream media and the only trusted one I say.. unless u see a blog in alignment don't bloody trust the news piece at all..

[Twilight Fairy]

seriously.. she has managed to misquote me at every sentence.. I mean just *how* can someone be that demented!

She has probably picked up a line from the HT piece I wrote, tampered it to suit her requirement and put it here.

 

In your case also it almost sounds like u were a lecturer in some college teachig blogging and then suddenly u became a lawyer when

you shifted to blr!! :P :) ..

2008/6/5 Sanjukta Basu <samyuk...@gmail.com>:

[Mohan]

Lol... Hi Prof Sanjukta :D

Misreporting at its best :)

Contact that journo and tell him/her ;D

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[Nishu Goyal]

blogging is the mainstream media and the only trusted one I say..

Every journalist looks like rita seeker to me.

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[Snigdha Vinayak Das]

sanju u shd have used the subject line, "Misquoted in Indian Express" 

[Sandil Srinivasan]

Blogging is the mainstream media and the only trusted one I say..

Sure, you've been misquoted, but that doesn't mean you can writeoff mainstream media and say blogging is the only trusted one. There are blogs that are a total insult to subject matter, and English, for that matter - so 'trusting' a media source is entirely opinionated.

I'm also starting to wince in pain everytime I see this 'blogging vs mainstream media' ideas floated around. I personally think of blogging as a mechanism/platform/framework to "compliment" and "work with" mainstream media. Blogging never has and will never will get the reach that mainstream media enjoys, nor the credibility - not even with Big B, Laloo and going forward perhaps Yeddy blogging too. It doesn't help either that people like Aamir Khan post about their dogs licking their feet. Would you call those trusted media?

Every journalist looks like rita seeker to me.

While every journalist might look like a Rita, you also got to understand that we - the audience - like reading what we read. If things weren't as spiced up, then papers wouldn't sell as much as they would before. Maybe not 'we' as in this group, but the general mass, the junta, the folks who drive this democracy, in general, are news-spice-hungry.

This is just a small incident of misreporting, it affects Sanjukta and Priyanka perhaps - but there have been worse incidents. If you compare the ground realities of the Jaipur blasts and what came in TOI the next morning, you'll find a number of people, maybe a community itself, affected by the misreporting. But how many of us will, say, boycott purchasing TOI? Or protest? Or do anything about it besides arguing about it on a googlegroup?

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From: blogal...@googlegroups.com on behalf of Snigdha Vinayak Das
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Subject: [Blog'a'Loreans] Re: I was qouted in Express India...

sanju u shd have used the subject line, "Misquoted in Indian Express"

On 05/06/2008, Nishu Goyal <nishu...@gmail.com> wrote:

blogging is the mainstream media and the only trusted one I say..

Every journalist looks like rita seeker to me.


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Mohan <cool...@gmail.com> wrote:

Lol... Hi Prof Sanjukta :D

Misreporting at its best :)

Contact that journo and tell him/her ;D

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[Sanjukta Basu]

Rant indeed.

I don't know about others, but I personally have begin to trust Blogs more than Newspapers or TV news. I read something on the paper and to verify the authenticity I do a blog search for the same thing... if I can't find a single blog I presume its crap.

And saying Junta likes crap that's way they deliver crap is a very old argument...with that sort of arguments things would never change. And who says its only an argument on Google grp... people here have actually given up reading TOIs and the likes haven't we? More would follow suit too...

[Mrinal Wadhwa]

Sandil,

Errrr !!! Syntax Error: could not find start tag <rant> ... lol !!

Jokes apart, I actually believe there is not much difference between the two mediums pretty much ALL the same rules apply .. quality, credibility, trust, ethics .. everything is the same ... the only difference is the level of maturity.

I tend to trust content sources not based on the medium but based on a continuous relationship that I form over reading them for a period of time.

Sanjukta,

You shouldn't trust blogs either they can and do make pretty much the same mistakes that the particular journalist in question made. I mean some of the best and most popular bloggers make mistakes .. I recently wrote two articles pointing out miss quotes and miss information on three blogging biggies .. Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb and All About Microsoft.

http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/2008/05/09/a-list-bloggers-confused-about-rich-internet-application-technologies/

http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/2008/05/10/latest-example-readwriteweb-a-list-bloggers-are-so-confused-about-ria-technologies/

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Mrinal 

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On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Sandil Srinivasan <ssri...@tibco.com> wrote:

[Snigdha Vinayak Das]

Hi,

 

Well looks like this is turning into Mainstream Media vs New Media.

 

I personally feel and to some extent agree with both Sanju and Sandil. Blogging is a very new activity and has a long way to go in terms of establishing a credibility.

 

I would still continue to read the News Paper and see NEWS channels and would rather belive what I get to see there. Blogs are more of a space for personal opinions and off course 1st hand witness too. But till now we dont have anything in place to establish the authenticity of the information posted on blogs. I atleast have that trust in a respectable News Paper becuase a Paper would still try not to "dis-inform" becuase its reach is more wide spread, there is a lot of respect, credibility and money involved. Though it is a good idea to always keep searching similar NEWS on the internet to look for any discrepency that the mainstream media might have.

 

In this NEWS article, both Priyanka and Sanju have been mis quoted but the fact is it is not a serious offense threatening the security of the country. Having said that, yes I agree it is hurtful when people go about saying anything about anyone, but again, that is what happens to many film stars also. You always have the options to verify the NEWS. We also have options and choices whether to read such gossip magazines or more responsible magazine. The market is open to all to play. It is our responsiblity to make well thought of choices.

 

One aleternative is to leave comments on that post stating the fact and also to write/ call the editor. Always insist on having a copy of the NEWS that is going to be published. In fact all resposnible journalists send a copy to the interviewee for an approval before they go ahead with the publishing.
 

I think, we have discussed on this enough and the Moderator of the group can close this thread now because this is a never ending debate with no conclusion.

 

 

Snigdha