On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:41, Rajen M. Parekh wrote:

Couldn't agree more. Just wish people could understand that they are being served trash/filth. Personally I feel TOI is a glamour paper 'cause they carry more of that then any news. It seems that skin-show sells better. But what surprises me more is that the so called intellects are still stuck with their belief in TOI's authenticity.

(On an off beat note, DNA seems to be following TOI - in the sense that they also feel that skin-show sells.)

FEEL??? Skin show sells very well indeed. During the dotcom bust porn sites were raking in the moolah. Sometime back there was a russian tv channel where the news reader would strip as she read all the news. This was during the worst days of Yelstin's rule. It was absolutely hilarous. The punch was a voice over which said that the newsreader visual was true to the best of their knowledge, Implying that everything else was crap.

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