BlackNeutral asks

In the comments from the last post.. Nicely written, so thought of publishing it whole..

Hello there !. Glad you spoke up !. I was very much taken aback by this change in the quality of TOI.The newspaper has lost my respect.Probably this loss of integrity may be due to the marketing war existing between the publishers, which affects the editorial content.

Today Times of India outsells Indian Express, which is far much a better newspaper in terms of quality of the news we get. I say this because I go to the nearby news stand on sundays, at ten in the morning, only to find that TOI papers have long been soldout.I happily pickup the Express, which used to be still there. Yet Express is still traditional, the way I have known newspapers. But I am not sure what it will be like in the future, anyway.Strange, the now generation does not like the old school style.

I am not sure whether you have read the fiction "The fourth estate" by Jeffery Archer. It talks about the war between two newspaper barons fighting for market, who by no means care for the tradition or the respect the newspaper holds in the hearts of millions and go about printing news which people like to read and gossip around. Who is to blamed for this, the people or the publishers ?

BlackNeutral, my friend, if I could've explained it all, I would have in the last post.. As I said in a different post, it's probably a symptom of everything that is weird about this age of hours.. The Times has realized that no one actually bothers about the news as such.. Most people get their news from headlines.. That explains the news tickers that keep rolling on 24 hour news channels.. Business (CNBC et al), Sports (Star Cricket) and Music (MTV / Channel V) also have their own tickers.. It's just us that feels we don't have the time to read the entire news and analyze it.. Honestly, ever since I have known it, a day always had 24 hours, never more.. So how is it that we feel we don't have the time for anything??? Fundamentally, I don't know one thing that is different in our lives compared to that of our parents at the same age..

Why is it then that they were always smiling and we are having to take physicals once a year???