Is there a parallel to this incident anywhere in the whole wide world of journalism? A singer gets a brief two-line, 22-word negative mention in a established critic’s review of a film starring another singer. And that results in the hurt singer outing the critic as a homosexual who, having been spurned by the singer,…
Daily Archives: 17 July 2007
How NDTV gives a nice little plug for Lenovo
Reading news with a notebook computer in front has become a regular feature on Indian television. But look closely at this montage of images from New Delhi Television (NDTV), and you will find the logo of Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought over IBM’s laptop business, prominently showing up on screen. The logo appears on…
40 tips to improve your grammar, punctuation
Looking to improve the clarity of your sentences? Wondering if you should use ‘a’ or ‘an’? Don’t know how to deal with dangling modifiers? Is the Oxford comma baffling you? Trying to achieve tense consistency? Not to worry, help is here: 40+ tips to improve your grammar and punctuation Link via Guy Kawasaki
Is Google readying to make its first India buy?
Hindustan Times is reporting that Google and Yahoo may be eyeing rediff.com, the pioneering internet portal set up by Rediffusion co-founder Ajit Balakrishnan. The NASDAQ-listed company, which also publishes the weekly India Abroad newspaper in the United States, is valued at nearly $750 million (approximately Rs 3,000 crore), and rediff’s share price has gone up…
In a global village, the globalisation of news
If you’ve heard of globalisation being defined using Princess Diana‘s death—Egyptian boyfriend, Indian doctor, French driver, etc—or Thomas Friedman‘s Dell notebook–processor made in Taiwan, software in India, etc—then you will latch on to this definition of the globalisation of news as explained by a BBC editor. “An Indian man, sailing from India to China, listening…
IJR 