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Sambhar Mafia - Cooked To Kill!

Thursday, November 10, 2005

It happens only in (Times of) India

ToI reporter poses as wannabe blogger and attends the Delhi Bloggers Meet. He then comes up with a report in Delhi Times trashing the Blogosphere.

TTG, the organizer of the meet explains it here. Did the ToI scribe think that Bloggers are like terrorists and hence he needs to hide his identity so as to get maximum mileage out of the event?

Looks like we need to have high entry barriers to these blog meets. Otherwise there will be more undercover journalists than bloggers and it will end up as a Journalist meet with bloggers doing the reporting.

posted by Kaps at 6:15 PM

13 Comments:

  • Tht's a fine piece of "Investigative" journalism from TOI. When was the last time a TOI bring a real "breaking news" that involved some risk, some news that really had an impact? I can't recollect any.

    By Blogger The Comic Project, at 8:30 PM  

  • kaps link to TOI article?

    By Blogger ada-paavi!!!!, at 9:10 PM  

  • was following the story after you blogged it...its rapidly becoming a squabble between bloggers now. ridiculous!
    abt TOI, i think it should give blogdom a break from its stories...where were they during the IIPM thingy? the less said about them, the better.

    By Blogger maverick, at 9:12 PM  

  • TCP, why not dedicate a comic post on this..

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:25 PM  

  • Is TOI jealous of bloggers ? This is ridiculous ..

    By Blogger Cogito, at 10:12 PM  

  • Well, well, wonders will never cease :-)

    By Blogger Krish, at 12:33 AM  

  • Hmm.....seems incredible to think that the "Rags of India" has sunk to a new low!! Maybe it can be renamed the "Toiletpaper of India"!!.....

    By Blogger Naveen Roy, at 12:54 AM  

  • I love to sling mud on TheSlimesOfIndia whenever the opportunity presents itself... Here is a big scoop!
    Ah, that felt good :)

    The levels to which TOI will stoop, apalling!

    By Blogger Bala (Karthik), at 12:54 AM  

  • Shame on TOI.!! I think we should watch out for these idiots showing up at Bloggers meet.!

    By Blogger Narayanan Venkitu, at 9:03 AM  

  • Weird! Why are they after the bloggers ..as if they are dealing coke?

    By Blogger Abi, at 9:45 AM  

  • =)) ROTFL

    MSM literally seems be the KG kid trying to pull the pants of the bloggers down (not so KG material tho' - but fully in line with TOI's policies :-D )

    By Blogger Arvind Srinivasan, at 10:43 AM  

  • your last comment just cracks me up..

    :)

    it might even come true soon where bloggers do the real writing !!

    By Blogger Unknown, at 2:54 PM  

  • what will they try next

    By Blogger Visithra, at 5:39 PM  

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