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Blogoshere : Indian Express screws up big time
Posted by Admin on 1, December, 2005 (758 reads)
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I was going through the November 28th edition of 'The New Indian Express' published from Chennai (An Edition of Indian Express).
On page 5, was the hallmark full page advertisement of the great IIPM with the usual Arindam Chaudhuri extolling the virtues of his Diploma Mill.

On page 4 came this shocker which demonstrates the amount of research and fact checking, mainstream journalists tend to do even in this age of the almighty Google.

Chennai becomes blogger city

By K Praveen Kumar
Chennai, Nov 27: It's official. Chennai leads the list of metros in blogging.

Blogs, one of the most easily-maintainable forms of personal websites, is fast emerging as an alternative media. Angry youngsters, who don't get a chance to air their views in public forums, litterateurs, who lack media space, ad political activists, who seek open-minded discussions - all find blogs as an alternative medium to put their views arss. And Chennai, which is all set to become the number one city in the Indian IT sector, tops the chart with 293 blogs, according to statistics posted in india.blogstreet.com.

It was not long ago when the sizzling star of Kollywood, Trisha, got into the eye of a storm when an anonymous visitor posted an obscene video of her's in one of the blogs. Else-where, an IBM company employee had to resign after she posted some objectionable information regarding the Indian Institute of Project Management (IIPM), Delhi, in her blog.

.. The article continued...


Wow! Mr. K Praveen Kumar, the author of this article has a bad case of 'Stuck counting the Columns Of Morgagni' syndrome and has confused tremedously between Gaurav Sabnis - former employee of IBM who resigned to uphold his principles instead of giving in to IIPM's corporate arm-twisting strategies, Rashmi Bansal - Editor of JAM magazine which started it all, and Varna - another victim of IIPM's legal diarhorric threats.

To top it all, Praveen Kumar refers to IIPM as Delhi's Indian Institute of Project Management! Wow!
He has probably read the acronym 'IIPM', never cared to read or find out more about the issue and with the characteristic arrogance that most journalists are blessed with, went on to write an article in the IE. (There is indeed many other IIPM's.. and one Indian Institute of Project Management at Chennai too)

Can we see a erratum or clarification, Mr. Praveen Kumar? Perhaps you would elaborate on the IIPM matter once you have acquainted fully with it? - Start here! (Desipundit's summary + links)
Oh, otherwise, thanks for writing about the blogosphere! Sure you worded it all positively, yet your article had to be frisked.

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