Saturday, January 30, 2010

Paid News: Media Moral Hawaldars Worry EC too!

The self-declared band of moral-Media (press conduct) hawaldars are going firm on the 'corrupt' scribes..uuuhhh!!

The Report says "The Editors Guild’s has urged the Election Commission to take strong action against both candidates and media persons who violate the disclosure norms of election expenditure in
regard to media publicity."

"A delegation from the Guild, led by guild president Rajdeep Sardesai(of all people), submitted a memorandum to the commission."

Sardesai said this dangerous trend threatened the foundations of journalism by eroding public faith in the credibility and impartiality of news reporting.(this guys never stops talking...ha).

In the report: Chawla (Chief Election Commissioner)acknowledged that the commission has already received several complaints on theissue of paid news. One grievance was that candidates sometimes got blacked out by unscrupulous publications, unless they paid up. Others complained that well heeled candidates who could pay the corrupt media get write ups in their favour. (yes, they are talkin about U..ho, well times are chaging ;)

Read the Editor's Guild report PDF.

Well the under-paid journos are doing it and why won't they.

Friday, January 29, 2010

JD Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye, is Dead.


He shocked and inspired a whole generation, a recluse by virtue JD Salinger, will forever be one of the best writers in the world.

He died of natural causes. He was 91.

Salinger in his The Catcher in the Rye brought to life the rebellion and the sense of meaningless-ness in teenagers, through Holden Caulfield.


Go grab a copy, read it. It is a Must Read Book in your lifetime.

Rest In Peace- JD Salinger.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

How come God's Not Funny? Why is there is no tolerance in religion?



Intolerance is gaining ground.  We are losing out against the simple Right to Expression/Right to Speech. A virtually unknown newspaper the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten publishes a cartoon. Millions of Muslims around the world, who had never seen the caricatures, stage protests against an insult to the prophet demanding the appropriate punishment for the offenders- Death.
While the  big brother Osama went on to issue a Fatwa. What is the world coming to, a sane mind will ask? But the question itself has so often been asked that it has just become an empty rhetoric.
Muslims certainly lead the race is expressing their angst with blood. But Christians too are not far behind, in crying “this hurts sentiments.”
But in the end is it all not religious intolerance, as the religion is not able to tolerate what other people have to say about the religion. Religion can condemn and even brand- say  Infidel. Then why not art, literature or a speech, be able to poke fun at a religion.
I wish there would be more cartoons, more caricatures, poking fun at every religion. It’s time that they saw things without their veils.
It won’t be wrong to say that today religion is eating into the entire fibre of a free world. Satire, pun, jokes and sarcasm aren’t they a right as well.
Then why suppress it?

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Former Pak Chief along with Indian Stars, promotes Girl Child cause: Goof-up India


 
Leaving red faces in the government, an official advertisement by the ministry of women and child development(WCD) against female foeticide, which appeared in newspapers on Sunday, carried the photograph of a former Pakistan Air Force chief.(courtesy: Financial Express).

The idea was to have Indian heroes promote the cause, but in a major blunder we had the former Pak Air Force chief Anvir Ahmed, instead of Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal PV Naik.

Former Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major told this reporter: "It was sheer negligence and a major goof-up, that goes on to show how less the people (including those in power) understand their own armed forces." The uniforms, insignia, crest, roundel and even colour pattern of uniforms are different.

A brilliant comedy of errors that we along with the rest of world can laugh on, but its a shame and an embarrassment at the time.

However, in all this The Third Eye says: It is a conspiracy, to embarrass the country. Fingers but point to China as the possible hand. In all but speculations. :)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Haiti Earthquake Donations


With FBI issuing a fraud alert warning potential donors to be cautious, this reporter thought it his humble duty to provide some of the trust worthy websites where people can pool-in donations.
Read FBI warning.

 A few trustworthy sites as listed by Google:

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, UNICEF (1-800-4UNICEF), Direct Relief, Yele Haiti, Partners in Health, Red Cross, World Food Program, Mercy Corps (1-888-256-1900), Save the Children, Lambi Fund, Doctors Without Borders, The International Rescue Committee, Care, William J. Clinton Foundation, Meds & Food For Kids, Feed the Children, Habitat for Humanity, Mayor's Fund for NYC

Even Donate via Google Checkout recommended.

Love Story author Erich Segal dead


"Love means never having to say you're sorry."



The man who forever inked these lines in the minds of millions of youngsters throughout the world with his book"Love Story," has died of a heart attack. Eric Segal was 72.

About Segal AP says:

Segal was a Yale classics professor and screenplay writer when he turned a proposed movie about two college students — preppy Oliver and smart-mouthed Jenny — into a novel. Published in 1970, "Love Story" was a weeper about a young couple who fall in love, marry and discover she is dying of cancer. It was a million seller guaranteed to make readers cry and critics scream.

He is survived by his wife, Karen James, and daughters Francesca, 29, and Miranda, 20.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A Day In The Life Of Our Yeddy Anna: oouch!!


He came, he saw to never see again.

 
And you wonder what our honourable CM is doing for the state? Garnering every blessing, stuping any low---"Just that I may forever remain the CM"..!! Hard Work, it is!!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Faking News Exposé: Amar Singh Missing!! But Found In Tears!


                                                                                                                                                 Courtesy: Faking News
Sulky Amar Singh, former (read I'll Be Back) Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, who quit from all organisational posts, was found shedding rivers of tears over the remark by Ram Gopal Yadav that he has "lost his mental balance".

The Chandini Bar maître d  Sanju Bava later found Amar Singh(a BIG B fan) in an inebriated  in Men's toilet acting out the drunk scene from Amar Akbhar Anthony before the mirror. It seems Mr Singh told maître d  Sanju Bava that he would now like take up acting instead of politics. Though we still have not been able to verify how true the report is as the hunt is still on to find the missing Amar.

While among industry gossip-mongers it is also being rumoured that the former SP chief would be appearing in Mumbai soon, to meet cine star Ayesha Takia's father-in-law (Shiv Sena's favorite punching bag) to chalk out plans for a movie with Ayesha as his lead star and Sanjay Dutt as the ever-green Villain, while Amar would make his virgin venture as the male-lead in the movie.

In all this and much more, the Party may have shunned Amar Singh, but in Hollywood or in Politics, nobody plays it like Amar--King Size!! Faking it of course!!