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Newspapers are supposed to be one of the torchbearers of Democracy. Having lived all over India , at various times I have been a subscriber to most popular newspapers such as The Hindu,Times of India,Hindustan Times,Indian Express & Deccan Chronicle. Being a bigtime The Hindu fan , I always have had this pet clashes with GBS about The Hindu Vs TOI ( To compare Hindu with TOI is the ultimate insult you can heap on Hindu !). Its always been the content of The Hindu Vs the Marketing might of TOI ( Much like Apple Vs Microsoft ? )
Its was good to read that The Hindu had crossed a million copies a few days ago. Also interestingly , Times of India will be launching a newspaper titled " Times Independent" from May 1 . This new paper would target the serious readers who want in-depth analysis ( Does Times then admit that the current paper is just trash ??).
If I write or speak some decent english today , I owe a lot of it to THE HINDU.
P.S : "TOI is a newspaper published in India by Indians for people who think they live in some other Country !"
Newspapers are supposed to be one of the torchbearers of Democracy. Having lived all over India , at various times I have been a subscriber to most popular newspapers such as The Hindu,Times of India,Hindustan Times,Indian Express & Deccan Chronicle. Being a bigtime The Hindu fan , I always have had this pet clashes with GBS about The Hindu Vs TOI ( To compare Hindu with TOI is the ultimate insult you can heap on Hindu !). Its always been the content of The Hindu Vs the Marketing might of TOI ( Much like Apple Vs Microsoft ? )
Its was good to read that The Hindu had crossed a million copies a few days ago. Also interestingly , Times of India will be launching a newspaper titled " Times Independent" from May 1 . This new paper would target the serious readers who want in-depth analysis ( Does Times then admit that the current paper is just trash ??).
If I write or speak some decent english today , I owe a lot of it to THE HINDU.
P.S : "TOI is a newspaper published in India by Indians for people who think they live in some other Country !"
posted by Cogito at
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
7 Comments:
Given that Chennai is no longer conservative and with the influx of people from other parts of India ToI might be able to make some noise in the market. ToI's introductory price is likely to be Rs 1.50. All along there has not been much of serious competition to The Hindu in Chennai. The arrival of ToI would increase the pressure on The Hindu to become more jazzier.
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Kaps, at 3:20 PM
Great PS dude :)
Hari
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Anonymous, at 3:20 PM
The last lines say it all. Nice post.
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Abhay, at 4:54 PM
Abby,Hari -- Thanks !
kaps, This is an argument i do not deny and also keep hearing always.I have a few more ideas on this, perhaps should write another post .
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Cogito, at 12:12 AM
TOI is just trash. They dont write news, they only write stories. I think when they dont have anything to write about they just sti down, dream up something and spit it out in their papers. Most of the things that come up in their site is very very questionable. Whenever I hear about some sensational news from desis, the first thing that I ask is "Is this a TOI article?".
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Twin-Gemini, at 12:45 PM
Who the hell needs a tabloid full of printed letters(The Hindu).
TOI is the best option for illiterates like me, who form the major chunk of the population.
Is there a PAGE 3 in The Hindu??? Even it were, it will be adorned by a Chitra Vishwanathan or Nityashree.. Hindu has to learn a lot from TOI and go with GenY than GenVO(very old).
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gormandizer, at 6:27 PM
Twin-Gemini , Absolutely right.
Gormandizer, Did I expect anything different from you ? I know you are a bigtime TOI fan. Btw, Its Chitra Vishveshwaran and not Viswanathan :-)
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Cogito, at 10:27 PM
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