What is wrong with Time of India?

  • Thread starter Thread starter dahiyarules
  • Start date Start date

What do you think about Time of India?

  • I love Times of India!

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • No Opinion, I find it alright!

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • I hate Times of India!

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • I do not care, Sumit needs to find better things to do!

    Votes: 10 52.6%
  • Total voters
    19
Status
Not open for further replies.
D

dahiyarules

Guest
I read this report on Times of India. It is the poorest English writing I have ever seen. To add insult to injury it appeared in India's national newspaper. Where are the Editors? Who is responsible for reviewing this material before it goes online or goes into print.

http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/4300189.cms

Youth gets life imprisonment for throwing acid on girl
22 Mar, 2009 1519hrs IST PTI

KOLHAPUR: A youth was sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking a girl by throwing acid through one side love here.

Additional Session Judge A B Mahajan declared this judgment yesterday.

The youth Arvind Ashok Sonar was news paper seller and fall in one side love with a girl.

The incident occurred on November 21, 2007 when Sonar came to know that marriage of the girl was fixed, then Sonar went to her apartment and thrown acid towards her.

After the incident Shahupuri police arrested him and file case against him.


TOI is supposedly a national newspaper. It is an English-Language daily. Thus one can expect it to follow at the least the most basic standard's of English writing.

Times of India is like my home-town newspaper. I would go online to their website to get news from Delhi. I have in the past, voluntarily boycotted their news services due to poor-quality editing and reporting. But, there are not many good online sources for news from Delhi. So, I kept coming back.

But, this time I have had it. I am boycotting TOI for good until I get some credible evidence they are going to make a serious attempt at improving their journalistic standards.

What do you people think about TOI? Are there ardent TOI fans out there? Or, are there others who feel just like I do about the newspaper?

Please share your input!
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I have also noticed that the sports section of Hindustan Times will always have a lot of grammatical problems when a cricket game is going on. Seems like a person is hurriedly writing down what they are seeing without worrying about their English.

As a side note: Without polling myself, it is somewhat interesting that the last option of your poll is the most voted one so far. :)
 
I have voted for the last option.
TOI's approach lately is that of "Hum Nahi Sudhrenge". I mean the quality of reporting is has gone down hugely!

Bhai Sumit welcome back!
I believe, lots of members including me missed you! Hope to see you more often here on Jatland!

Sateypal
 
This is not Times of India reporting, this is a Press Trust of India flash which has been copied and pasted as it is(with out undersranding), this is usual with all news papers and websites in India.

If someone is to be blamed then it is PTI first and for them its usual..
 
.
Print media in India has, to some extent, lost the quality of written languages. TOI's sister concern, Navbharat Times (Hindi) too has started using Mumbai-type Hindi - this phenomenon did not exist some years ago.
.
 
TOI is punjab kesari in English:rolleyes:
I prefer HT.. subtle ,informative n to the point
n of course those Sunday Brunches n editorials
Good online paper..but u can also read it the preferable traditional way-turnin page by page:)..n if u r after Delhi news..it has it..
my homepage
 
Most mainstream media is immature. TV and print.

There are some good columnists here and there in print, other than that I have not seen an iota of quality from Indian media.
 
I would like to say that TOI is far better then other news paper...If you will check other news paper grammer etc. then you will also find a lot , even more then TOI:)
sidchhikara said:
Most mainstream media is immature. TV and print.

There are some good columnists here and there in print, other than that I have not seen an iota of quality from Indian media.
Click to expand...
 
i saw the title of the thread/poll "What is wrong with Time of India?" (or should it be Times of India) then i saw this reply...

satyeshwar said:
I have also noticed that the sports section of Hindustan Times will always have a lot of grammatical problems when a cricket game is going on. Seems like a person is hurriedly writing down what they are seeing without worrying about their English.
Click to expand...

... for sure we are moving at jet speed, as i refrain myself from polling.
 
may be he literally meant TIME of india instead TIMES of India:p I think its a pathetic paper:o
brahmtewatia said:
i saw the title of the thread/poll "What is wrong with Time of India?" (or should it be Times of India) then i saw this reply...



... for sure we are moving at jet speed, as i refrain myself from polling.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
sunitahooda said:
may be he literally meant TIME if india instead TIMES of India:p I think its a pathetic paper:o
Click to expand...

i also thought of this before posting my reply, but then all other context(s) and explanation(s) were pointing otherwise… may be i’m wrong. but for sure we are moving at jet speed.
 
TOI is not even a newspapaer, it is a tabloid. HT is confused between aping TOI and standing for journalistic standards. Hindu is leftist and bland. That leaves Indian Express, andhon main kaana raja. I haven't read Mint much, but whatever I have seen of it on www.livemint.com, it seems reasonably good.
 
...Sirf Punjab Kesri aer 'Chacha-Chaudhary' padha karo.... :D
En mein hi sab kuch sachh, aer theek-thaak likha hota hai.........
(aer haan bhaiyee, baki ki 'latesht' news, duniya mein kae hon laag rhya sai...uskae liye dekha karo 'Balaji' kae TV serials)

I try MSN India news, and even HT, gave up on TOI long ago.... (someone here mentioned "TOI is simply 'Punjab-Kesri' in English"- BANG ON!!!) ;)

ps. That's right Sumit man, you need something else to worry about...... (my vote! ;)
 
My dear freind, the newspapers are for news and should not be judged on the basis of Photos only. It all depends up on the content of the news and the quality of the editorial.

For photos there are so many other sources

cooljat said:
Even I like it ... bahut hi sundar fotos aati hai isme roz ! ;)
Click to expand...
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top