RE:Poor Journalism
by Sam on Sep 18, 2007 05:14 AM Permalink
Yes its pathetic how they have changed the meaning. This is what gives journalism a bad name and reason why people no longer trust the media. Borde meant it in a postive way but Rediff took the snippet out and made it look negative!
A better title would have been "Rahul led from the front"!!
Looks like the journalist was biased and wanted to give his own views and use Chandu Borde's shoulders to fire the gun.
What a shame on media and rediff for such cheap tactics! First learn ethics then come to write stories.
RE:Poor Journalism
by Prashanth Reddy on Sep 18, 2007 09:41 AM Permalink
Dear Friend, this is exactly what's stopping our progress. We have a media which lacks self image. Our media is so self critical and immature. Look how western media treats its own leaders and informs its people. Check how an Australian media prepares when its Cricket Team tours India. The Aus tour of India during 2001 was perfect case in point. Saurav and his team had to not only fight it out against 11 Australians, but whole of Aus media, rather pathetically our own overtly self critical Indian media. And this put our Indian umpires under pressure. And we hardly did anything when Michael Slater was so mis-behaving in the first test. Indian media does not educate our masses, and instead rakes up trivial issues to inappropriate proportions to gain some cheap publicity. That's what people do when they lack a vision and self-image.
RE:Poor Journalism
by venkat narayanan narayanan on Sep 18, 2007 01:03 PM Permalink
I second this reader's thoughts as the sole reason for me to have taken a peek into this article was the headline. I got to know the context in which Mr. Borde had made those comments only towards the end of it. And yes. He has just tried to highlight some good qualities of Dravid and hasnt tried to deface him as the headline suggest. Guys at Rediff, I have been an ardent fan of yur site ever since it was launched. But I am afraid, I have to say this.. You guys are messing up your own reputation by cming up with these kind of cheap stuff. This is definitely not expected of you guys. Grow up.
