Where’s the news?
Gurubhai never finds anything newsworthy. And he always asks for that.
Gurubhai, a veteran journo, is always a source of pure entertainment for his colleagues.
Truly, it’s unusual. Being in journalism for so many years, and seemed to be a successful one, he never finds anything worthy to be printed in the newspapers as “NEWS”. To him, all’s worthless.
Even, though he had written plenty, and was published in the esteemed daily — a quite renowned one — he works for, gurubhai is still in search of something to be newsworthy.
Once, an industrialist, who happened to be a good source for news, was in town. The newspaper assigned gurubhai to attend the press conference, to be addressed by the CEO. It was almost a closed-door meeting attended by selected invitees i.e. journos. Everyone shot the honcho with their chiselled (?) verbal weapons and got satisfied with the feeds that they would pen-down, which they thought, would be carried by their newspapers prominently. About an hour has passed. Now, it’s time for vote of thanks. Suddenly, gurubhai asked, “Mr CEO, where’s the news? Give me some news”. Laughter filled the room.
Yes, the next morning, gurubhai too wrote an article, which, no wonder, got prominence.
So, to gurubhai, anything that newspapers carry can never be treated as pure news. No, not all, but almost everything. What he finds, newspapers carry, is, just fillers, of little human interest.
J said,
August 25, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Yup! Gurubhai’s absolutely right! Guys, can we have lots of gossip going here, please! We all miss that in Kolkata journo blogs…Plz Plz Plz keep this going!
sovon said,
August 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Actually, Gurubhai’s ‘news mission’ will never end. He is in search of life everywhere — something spicy, something palatable for all. In fact, he is very lonely…he doesn’t want people to spend life like him…..