As a fall out of News of The World, which crashed because of illegal tapping of phones/messages,the Guardian of UK has come out with a new project where the Readers can see and assess news.A list called NewsLists is provided and Readers can participate in the dissemination of News.
Of course conditions apply.
One wishes Indian electronic media follows this.
One often sees manipulated versions ,look at Anna Hazare tamasha, being aired Live,no mention is made of Sonia Gandhi in any of the scams,not even a murmur on the Genocide of Tamils ,of Tamil Fishermen being killed on daily basis by Sri Lanka.
Considering the stock holding pattern of the Media Companies in India ( please read my blog under Media), this is necessary as the Editors’ Guild seems to be doing nothing on warped and planted stories.
Look at the case where TIMES NOW published a picture of a Judge who was innocent because his name sounded like the suspect in a scam.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to relax a Bombay high court order asking Times Now TV channel to deposit Rs 100 crore – Rs 20 crore in cash and the rest as bank guarantee – before taking up its appeal against a trial court verdict in a defamation case.
Former Supreme Court Judge, Justice P B Sawant, had sued Times Now for mistakenly displaying his photograph in a report on September 10, 2008, about a person (with a phonetically similar sounding name) allegedly involved in the multi-crore Provident Fund scam. A Pune trial court had decreed the suit for Rs100 crore against the TV channel. Times Now had appealed against the trial court verdict, but the Mumbai HC in September this year had asked the TV channel to first deposit Rs 20 crore and provide Rs 80 crore as bank guarantee as a pre-condition for hearing the appeal. Appearing for the TV channel, senior advocate Harish Salve said the channel had apologized for the mistake and had run an apology for five continuous days and requested the apex court to relax the stiff condition of depositing Rs 100 crore as a pre-condition for appeal.
We often report big breaking stories as they happen, but have you ever wondered what stories we’re working on – and what’s about to drop? To help you find out, the Guardian newsdesk is opening its doors.
Few documents are more carefully guarded in newspaper offices than the newslist. The mixture of what’s coming up and what the editors are hoping for can be so valuable that rivals have even been known to pay for a sneaky look. Some newsrooms I’ve worked in have relied on code words to describe really juicy stories. Often, it can be an embarrassingly blank sheet of paper – best kept hidden, even from the boss.
The idea of giving this information away before publication might therefore seem to be putting digital dogma before common sense. Just because the internet theoretically allows journalists to give readers a peek behind the curtain by sharing the list with them does not make it a good idea.
We suspect otherwise though at the Guardian. What if readers were able to help newsdesks work out which stories were worth investing precious reporting resources in? What if all those experts who delight in telling us what’s wrong with our stories after they’ve been published could be enlisted into giving us more clues beforehand? What if the process of working out what to investigate actually becomes part of the news itself?
It might seem a minority pursuit, but the experience of covering breaking news already suggests otherwise. Like many websites, we are discovering some of our best-read stories are the live blogs that report events as they unfold, often with brutal honesty about what we don’t know or hope to find out.
With this in mind, the newsdesk at the Guardian is planning an experiment in opening its doors. The idea is to publish a carefully-selected portion of the national, international and business newslists onthis daily blog and encourage people to get in touch with reporters and editors via Twitter if they have ideas.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2011/oct/10/guardian-newslist
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