Today morning I received a link from @zeqox which redirects to this report from Manorama. Its a piece about IT Professionals and Alcohol. Stupid claims follows.
- IT guys drink a lot (Who Doesn’t ?)
- Malayalis were caught drinking in Bangalore and Chennai (WTF ?)
- Salaries are increasing day by day (Havent this guy heard of recession ?)
- IT guys drinks in Five star hotels
What is their “Own Reporter” trying to convey in this article ? Was he trying to fill a column with nonsense ?
I think its time that we did something to prevent all of this, something beyond blogging. We need an agency here to audit press and the content they spread. They should be held accountable for the information they broadcast.
I am not suggesting a China model regulation, but an audit process in which published news and the approach taken is verified. If wrong or misleading information is published some sort of penalty must be given.
Don’t know why Manorama is employing illiterate reporters..
Comment by Ranjith — July 28, 2009 @ 8:19 am
is there anyway we could sue these reporters???
like using RTI act to know their sources…. manorama is as bad as any b-grade magazine when it comes to such columns…..
Comment by Varun Anand — July 28, 2009 @ 8:52 am
GAWD!
Comment by Aravind Jose T. — July 28, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Ofcourse they should. There should be regulations in many ways. They dont have any problems in putting misleading news. And putting photos and names of criminals, and people in the newspapers should be stopped. Only reporting should be provided. It is high time to act. We cant wait until the opponent is powerless. What our action should do is to make them powerless.
Comment by Tony Jose — July 28, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
hahahahaaaa, this made my morning!
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MM proves itself again n again n again. What about starting something on the lines of “rotten tomatoes” by the Blogger community to award the worst newsreport, the worst reporter, the worst newspaper and so on?? Any doubts as to who will sweep all the awards?
Comment by scorpiogenius — July 28, 2009 @ 3:12 pm
Manorama caters to the serial watching moms and aunties in Kerala. All their publications manage to sensationalize issues like these and they dont forget to give them a sleazy touch. The other the my next-door neighbor aunty was very apprehensive when she heard her daughter was coming back home in a Sleeper bus. Later on I realized that Vanitha, yet another manorama publication had carried an article about “sleeper class” buses from bangalore to Kerala being something like u know.. Bangbus, sex-wagon or may be a Orgy Bus!
The author of this particular report is twerp as noone gets caught in this nation for drinking legal liquor. If at all some malayalis are caught in bangalore during some parties, they would have indulged in some other nasty illegal activities other than drinking.
Comment by clash — July 28, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
I agree with Scorpiogenious. that would be a good constructive idea. Create an association. And give awards. I hope other newspapers will be competing to report this. If and only if they don’t have hidden group of people.
Comment by Tony Jose — July 29, 2009 @ 1:26 am
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Every news papers will be having their own policies and ethics which they do believe which is good for them.
Malayala manorama(Same as Times of India)have the policies to increase their circulation by creating interest in the news they report not by reporting the authentic news.
Its very easy for to compare news which is coming in the news papers.
News papers like Hindu really believe in their ethics in reporting only things which has happened. They never will comment or write a column saying these and these might happen.
But Newspapers like Times or manorama writes predictions as they get more reader attraction to the predicted ones rather than happened ones.
For example Hindu wrote “Micheal Jackson is dead” where as Times wrote
“King of Pop Departed”( For attraction) and “Michael Jackson died of drug overdose”(Which they weren’t sure about it but wrote it to create a curiosity in readers.
Only bad effect on this policy is that people will tend to believe that the news are authentic when they repeat the reporting. Same as the news mentioned above. This creates a wrong idea about the Bangalore IT professionals.
Comment by Avant-Garde — July 29, 2009 @ 1:25 pm
MM like most other papers have an eye purely on its bottomline..
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Most of the articles would be very very general in nature which
1. needs zero amount of research
2. Has some sensationalism attached
3. likely to be quoted and discussed (like we are doing
The point is that they are in a recession mode too and sensationalism and innuendo sells more papers and gets more ad revenue
Comment by Serah — July 29, 2009 @ 3:57 pm
Manorama is a monopoly there in kerala. Unless they have some statistics of a research they did about this, they are so stupid to report like this.
Comment by problogger — July 30, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
manorama.. is waste..
Comment by Hrishy — July 30, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
manorama is always rash towards IT people and new technologies..dont know wats wrong wid them..
Comment by Milan Thomas — July 30, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
THEY HAVE THAT DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF MASTERING IN FANTACIES.THEIR DISCREDITED REPORTERS WRITE FICTION IN THE GUISE OF NEWS FEATURES BY ADOPTING TELESCOPIC IMAGES!
Comment by D.PRADEEP KUMAR — July 30, 2009 @ 11:47 pm
manorama is the only newspaper worth reading in Kerala.PERIOD.only trivandrumites hates it because of their inferiority complex with the growth of kochi city.go to orkut trivandrum community and see the bias.I wonder why in the first place trivandrum made the capital of kerala!
Comment by Achachu — August 2, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
@Achachu,
I do not know what you mean.
As far as I know,
1) Manorama is a Kottayam based newspaper.
2) The author of this article is a Kottayam native.
So, I do not know where Trivandrum and Kochi came up.
Comment by Domestic Avalanche — August 3, 2009 @ 7:58 am
Any body ever saw an Issue of the WEEK . Hard to believe it is under the same management aint it ? . About Milans comment on manorama being averse to new technologies . Ever heard of manoramas own IT company in kottayam, yes they have one and they do data warehousing and SAP.Manorama is a classic example of an establishment which has outgrown its management . What they need is some good editors. OK ! OK ! U say Manorama is waste but which is good then ? Free unbiased press exists only in the fantasies of the mass.
Comment by kerabyte — August 4, 2009 @ 8:43 am
With in two days Manorama link will go away. Thus I am putting the same as comment.
ഐടി മേഖലയിലെ മദ്യപാനം
ഐടി മേഖലയില് ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്ന യുവതീ യുവാക്കളില് മദ്യപാന പ്രവണത ഏറി വരികയാണോ? അടുത്തക്കാലത്ത് നടന്ന ചില സംഭവങ്ങള് സസൂഷ്മം പരിശോ ധിച്ചാല് ഇക്കാര്യം സത്യമാണെന്ന് ബോധ്യമാകും. അടുത്ത കാലത്ത് ചെന്നൈയിലും ബാംഗൂരിലും മദ്യപാന പാര്ട്ടികള്ക്കിടെ പിടിയിലായ മലയാളികള് ഉള്പ്പെടെയുള്ള ഐടി പ്രഫഷനുകളുടെ കാര്യം ഓര്ക്കുന്നുണ്ടല്ലോ? എന്താണ് ഈ മേഖലയില് ജോലിചെയ്യുന്നവരില് ഇത്തരമൊരു പ്രവണത വര്ധിച്ചു വരുന്നത്? ഒരു കാര്യം വ്യക്തം. ഓരോ ദിവസവും ഐടി കമ്പനികളില് വര്ധിച്ചു വരുന്ന ഉയര്ന്ന ശബളം തന്നെ പരമപ്രധാനമായ കാര്യം. കൈയ്യില് കിട്ടുന്ന പണം എങ്ങനെ കൈക്കാര്യം ചെയ്യണമെന്ന് അറിയാതെ ജീവിതം ആഘോഷിക്കുന്നവരാണ് ഈ പുതിയ
യുവത്വം.
നിസ്സാര കാരണങ്ങള് മതി ഇവര്ക്ക് പാര്ട്ടികള് നടത്താന്. ഒരു പുതിയ കാര് വാങ്ങി യാല്, പ്രമോഷന് കിട്ടിയാല്, ശമ്പള വര്ദ്ധനവുണ്ടായാല്, കുട്ടി ജനിച്ചാല് എല്ലാം ആഘോഷിക്കുകയാണവര്. പാര്ട്ടികളില് മദ്യം ഒഴിവാക്കാന് പറ്റാത്ത ഘടകമാണ്. വെറുതെ ഒരു രസത്തിന് തുടങ്ങുന്ന മദ്യപാനത്തിന് പിന്നീട് ഇവര് അടിമകളാകുന്നു. ഐടി രംഗത്തെ സ്ത്രീകളും മദ്യസേവയില് ഒട്ടും പിന്നിലല്ല എന്നതാണ് രസകരമായ മറ്റൊരു വസ്തുത. പാര്ട്ടികള്ക്കായി സ്റ്റാര് ഹോട്ടലുകളാണ് മിക്കവാറും തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുന്നതും.
മദ്യത്തിന് അടിമകളാകുന്നവരില് ചിലര് പറയുന്ന ഒരു കാരണം ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക, ജോലിയിലെ ടെന്ഷന്. പതിനാറു മണിക്കൂര് വരെ തുടര്ച്ചയായി ജോലിചെയ്യേ ണ്ടിവരുന്നതുകൊണ്ട്
ക്ഷീണം മാറ്റാന് വേണ്ടിയാണ് മദ്യപികുന്നതത്രേ! ഇനി മറ്റൊരു കാരണം കൂടിയുണ്ട്. കേരളത്തിലെ പ്രമുഖ ഐടി കമ്പനികള് സ്ഥിതി ചെയ്യുന്ന സ്ഥലത്തിന് സമീപത്തുതന്നെ നിരവധി ബാര് ഹോട്ടലുകള് അടുത്തിടെയായി പൊന്തിവരുന്നുണ്ട്. എന്തായാലും രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ പുരോഗതിയില് വളരെ നിര്ണായ കമായ പങ്കുവഹിക്കുന്ന ഒരു മേഖലയിലെ ചെറുപ്പക്കാരായ ആളുകള് മദ്യത്തിന് അടിമകളാകുന്നത് വളരെ ഗൌരവത്തോടെ കാണേണ്ട ഒരു കാര്യമാണ്.
Courtesy – Manorama Daily
Comment by keralafarmer — August 4, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
Kenny i totally agree with you,there should be some kinda agency to check these atrocities.I don’t know if you are aware of Integrated finance company(IFCL) which manorama itself had advertised as its subsidiary during its early stages collected huge amounts of money and disappeared(i know this is irrelevant to this post but i just wanted to show how money minded they are)i personally had experience of them framing my family in one prominent case alleging that we helped some national traitors to pass on information to pakistan.And after the authorities found how baseless those allegation were they cleared us,the amount of mental trauma my family went through is more than what words could explain,all this to sell some more copies of their filthy toilet paper at the expense of some one elses suffering.
This is just one case countless number of cooked up stories have already been published and are still being published some one should draw a line somewhere, we shouldnt let these people take the people for a ride according to their whim and fancy,or make them print it in big letter “FICTION” at the heading.
Comment by Rohan — August 4, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
Manorama sucks big time. THey are still lying in the standard of painkili novels and gossips. THats what they sell through their newspaper and in ints online version too.
Comment by Nikhil — August 23, 2009 @ 10:42 am
Cannot believe 16 million Malayalees read a toilet newspaper just worth to wipe our asses
Comment by Fuki — July 9, 2010 @ 2:32 pm