The Times of Whose India?
Today's online edition of The Times of India has ten stories.
One on the Mumbai monsoon, one on a suspected Kerala link with the London blasts, one on a new defence deal that Pakistan is seeking with Washington. And one on Murali's effectiveness against the Indian cricket team.
Here are the other headlines:
The psyche of the bare bod!
Going topless in Bollywood!
Women's patch of sexual desire
Were Sushmita, Ash next in line?
Hindi movies: bare-all, dare-all?
I'm not single, so I'm available
To think that this is, by their own admission, the largest selling English newspaper in the world.
One on the Mumbai monsoon, one on a suspected Kerala link with the London blasts, one on a new defence deal that Pakistan is seeking with Washington. And one on Murali's effectiveness against the Indian cricket team.
Here are the other headlines:
The psyche of the bare bod!
Going topless in Bollywood!
Women's patch of sexual desire
Were Sushmita, Ash next in line?
Hindi movies: bare-all, dare-all?
I'm not single, so I'm available
To think that this is, by their own admission, the largest selling English newspaper in the world.
posted by PrufrockTwo at
27.7.05
5 Comments:
Thank you for noticing the publishing of non-news!
But never trust statistics. I mean, look at the English-speaking population of India. Perhaps they mean the B&C group is the most widely read? I suppose it's because people don't like to read about poverty and caste politics in places outside the cities, yes? Yeah, I know farmers are committing suicide somewhere, but why look at malnourished babies when I can look at anorexic models?
Sorry please. Journalism college hangover.
Nice blog. Both.
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chamique, at 11:16 AM
Shows what the world wants to read, doesn't it?
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Veena, at 9:10 PM
Good one -- I have started a blog for this sometime back, bub did not get time to post there. you have inspired me again :-)
http://toisucks.blogspot.com
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Amit, at 3:47 AM
Oh, what wonderful observation. I wonder about this everyday. I wonder why they came up with Mumbai Mirror for TOI main edition seems to me a tabloid.
And the online edition? Check this out- there is always a "sex" based story on the TOI homepage. Always. Even as I write this, the third headline from bottom at timesofindia.com says, "Goodnight, no time for sex".
Well, for these guys, no time for quality news either.. *yawn*
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Anonymous, at 1:57 AM
Thank God! There are others who share my sentiments w.r.t to TOI. hope DNA/HT Mumbai shake TOIs roots in mumbai.
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