Saturday, May 30, 2009

MEDIAMATTERS 2: 31 May, 2009 - Sunday


  1. Walked into http://epaper.timesofindia.com
  2. straight to astrospeak
  3. Next halt – Delhi times page 1. Nothing interesting.
  4. Delhi Times last page – Bollywood gossip. Nothing interesting
  5. page 1 lead – lankan massacre toll story. Short on words, but good gripping aerial shots. Pix courtesy: Times,London
  6. to edit page – nothing interesting
  7. conversation with paul Coelho – decide to read. Not immdly
  8. sports page – t20 world cup columns on fatique. French open story. Not reading
  9. too many advts on sports section. News looks like fillers.
  10. go to times life section – aditya rajkapoor (shammi’s son) first person account. Like it.
  11. Paul Coelho interview with Bachi Karkaria – “I don’t understand how buying gossip magazines may raise the GDP of a country” says PC. It does, I believe. Chain effect. Bachi talking about crap being churned out and lapped up by public!
  12. Try http://epaper.dailypioneer.com. Like Express, it still shows yesterday’s paper. Wake up, guys!


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MEDIAMATTERS 1: 31 May, 2009 - Sunday



  1. Began with www.asianage.com
  2. checked veenu sandal’s tarot card reading of my zodiac sign
  3. on the home page, found Pranab Mukherjee still being mentioned as “External Affairs Minister”, though he is the new Finance Minister. Of course, he was the External Affairs Minister in the UPA government in its first term that ended a few weeks ago. Habits die hard!
  4. logged onto http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
  5. The Australian episode of Indian students being attacked and Meira Kumar’s prospects of becoming the first woman Lok Sabha speaker in India did not interest me because I had consumed this news last nite on CNN IBN.
  6. Skimmed other news – Wal Mart in Chandigarh, but did not read.
  7. Went straight to sports page
  8. Lead piece – Namaste London – liked the title. Did not read. Its about Indian team in London reaching for World T20 Cup beginning this week
  9. Read Gavaskar’s column Extra Punch – the legendary cricketer does not miss a chance to give a solid ‘punch’ to the world cricketing body.
  10. Sometime, I like to down pdf pages and read. It is much faster and easy to read because you don’t have to click and read each item. Moreover you have the liberty to enlarge font size to anything you like and read items of your choice.
  11. Paris Open is on. Still not interested to read about it. Dunno why.
  12. Excellent usage of visuals – editors know how to draw eyeballs! Lot of legs and cleavage show!
  13. The third page of sports page on football. Lot of ads. Did not like the look of that page.
  14. page 4 – lot of ads. Colors TV channel programme promotional ads – distraction for a serious reader.
  15. went to Books page – read Coca Cola review. The book is by a friend – Nantoo Banerjee, former business journalist. Later he worked withCoke in India. He was a hard hitting guy. Well, the review says he has lost his original touch. By the way, another coke’s Indian operations are in the offing. Some American fourth estater is likely to land in india in the next few weeks. Watch this space.
  16. World page – read about Susan Boyle, the singing sensation on “Britain has got talent’ (snippet)
  17. Read the Sri Lanka story on the death toll – quoting UN official. Last night watched Walk The Talk – Shekhar Gupta with SL President partly. Will transcript when it appears in Express next week.
  18. Vir Sanghvi column –on dynasty politics. Yes it is a major concern.
  19. Indrajit Hazra column – Red Herring – xlent. Reading him for the first time.
  20. Manas Chakravorty column – superb. Read him on livemint.com. HT has changed immensely over the years for the better.
  21. straight to zodiac page.
  22. HT City – KJO party news – good to know about patch ups. Why carry enmity too long? Better to bury them a.s.a.p.
  23. Visuals tell the tale. Maybe. Abhishek-Claudia Cannes meet issue am talking about.
  24. Enough of HT on Sunday morning – spent a little over an hour.


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