OUTLOOK posted its much awaited 'comprehensive' take on the IIPM fiasco. Shame on you Outlook. You are running a story on the Blogosphere and its collective ability to take down a story into pieces and analyse it -- In that very story you make such glaring mistakes that betray your shallowness. Irony. [Transmogrified indicts outlook]

Dan Rather is a blogger? Whatever stuff you are smoking, it is sure clouding your monitor!

Mainstream media suffers from a self-inflicted disease which goes under the guise of 'objectivity'.

Objectivity in reporting about any issue that has opposing parties, according to the MSM, is simply achieved by slighting both or all the sides. Found fault with one of them? superimpose something on the other side and make it equal = equal.

The Time while reporting on Islamic Terrorism, in an attempt to prove that Terrorism is not the exclusive recluse of Islam, chose to drag in Hinduism and force it on the socialist LTTE and make a point that even Hindus can be the vilest terrorists.

While reporting Kashmir, make India and Pakistan look equal-equal. Pakistan pumps in terrorists? Mention that Indian Army is present in the Kashmir valley. Pakistan has the Islamic fundamentalists? so does India with Shiv Sena, Bhajrang Dal and RSS. Doesn't matter that India and Pakistan do not fall into any common category, be it size, population, economic strength or whatever. Do not mention Pakistan without dragging India down to the level of Pakistan. Equal-equal.

Outlook too tries to bring in the same standard of 'objectivity' when it defines the Blogosphere with blanket sentences as follows.

The Indian blogging community (or blogosphere, as it likes to call itself) is essentially a bitchy, self-indulgent and an almost incestuous network comprising journalists, wannabe-writers and a massive army of geeks who give vent to their creative ambitions on the internet

Outlook thinks that it is being impartial when it denigrates and excoriates both IIPM as well as the blogosphere. equal equal.

It only goes on to prove that Outlook does not comprehend the Blogosphere in its entirely which is not just a playground of sorts for college students beating the blues, but also an outlet for opinions of professional scientists, engineers, politicians, artists, actors, imams, excluding only such as this Mr.Vivek, pompous journalists who think they have some sort of divine mandate to be the purveyors of news and writing.

90% of the matter in this article comes from the work of bloggers. The rest 10% conjured up by the author is dedicated to disparaging remarks on the bloggers - hardly a piece of fine journalism. Move over MSM.