Journalism

This article in The Telegraph yesterday reminded me of the out-of-the-box techniques of writing news pieces. I'd once read in my journalism notes about a reporter in New York writing on President John F Kennedy's assassination. He had interviewed the grave digger and used that as his news peg. A rather innovative way of writing the obituary!

This article, written similarly on Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for Presidentship is a little abstract but innovative!


http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/PUBLICATIONS/TT/TT/2012/06/17/INDEX.SHTML


-The pleasures of reading!

Traffic jam in the highway of the mind

Its ironical that I am posting this on my blog which is also part of the online networking circuit, but I guess its all about knowing your limits, drawing the line somewhere and not to over-do things!

Hats off to the people who update their statuses (On Facebook, BBM orWhatsApp; and sometimes all of these!) when they sleep in for 15 more minutes than usual, when they enjoy the weather: they express their joy by typing a new status, when they enter a mall or a movie they check-in as if Facebook were a hostel matron!
This article printed in The Telegraph, Kolkata today is meant for all those whose brain cells are excessively greased with information: useful and useless, necessary and unnecessary, righ and wrong: all the same, they clutter our minds and its best you clear the Recycle Bin in your teeny-weeny sized brain, before its too late!




http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120408/jsp/7days/story_15348360.jsp