What is our news reporters’ standard?

July 28, 2007 at 2:13 am · Filed under Recent News

Today I was reading news on The Daily Ittefaq site and when I scrolled down to IT Corner section the first article caught my eyes. It was titled “Hariye gelo cyber jouno oporadhider tothho” (Cyber sex offenders’ data was lost). I was on Google News this morning and I could not recall reading such news there.

After I read the article I searched for a long time on Google, BBC News and everywhere I could but could not find such news! In short TDI reported that out of 29,000 sex offenders found on MySpace.com profile data of 700 offenders were lost. It also reports that it was published more than four times in past two months on the company’s website.

From what I have found so far is some relevance with the numbers mentioned in the article. From BBC, Google, MSN and few other places I have found that MySpace.com has barred 29,000 sex offenders found on their social networking site. This number is four times higher than it was reported about couple of months earlier. Previously in May the site found 7,000 offenders.

I did not try to match every bits and pieces of the report made by TDI but so far only only number of offenders matches against the report made by worldwide media. It is really sad to see such bad reporting. Even though I could not find anything relevant that TDI reports, I will be happy to see anything that proves their report is correct. I do not know the editorial process of our newspaper and who approves all these news without making sure it is correct but it is really bad for people in our country! They are given wrong information and that is just not because someone found it wrong. But the person failed to translate or understand what was being reported on millions of news sites and newspapers.

All these raises a question “What is our news reporters’ standard?” I am not being rude to anyone and I know there are many excellent news reporters in our country who are giving their 100% effort in finding the correct news for Bangladeshi people. But these kind of weired and wrong news really puts a bad impression.

Please improve the quality of news published and let people know the right thing. Do not just publish for the sake of running your business!

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Where have I been?

July 20, 2007 at 12:25 pm · Filed under Personal News

It has been a long time since I last posted anything on the blog. Thanks to those who cared to email me for not writing anything. Well I have been very busy for last few months. In May I was preparing to go to Bangladesh. Initially my parents were supposed to go back to Bangladesh but unfortunately they could not go. Due to the accident that my father had few moths back doctor asked him to stay for few more months. Well I left on June 9th with my eldest brother, who migrated to Canada with us (my parents and me) last year.

After a shocking and disappointing 41 hours flight back to Bangladesh on Etihad Airways I had to start shopping from very next day! I didn’t even have time to contact anyone. Everyone had to come and wait for me at Kolahal (my house’s name in Dhaka). I would like to apologize to many of you whom I should have contacted and met. I promise to do so next time I visit.

Well on 22nd June a reception party was held. Some pictures from the party is on my Flickr.com account. After that Tithi (my wife), Shakhhar (my cousin), Pia (Shakkhar’s wife) and Mishuk (my another cousin) decided to visit our village at Shahjadpur. We had only one night to stay there and two whole days to spend. We had most out of our time there. Took around 832 pictures during that trip. Few of the pictures are on Flickr.com now.

Well as we all know time goes by just like that. It was a good trip, yet was so short. I feel I should have done a lot more than what I have done this time. I wish I had more time to spend there. On 3rd July I took the flight back to Canada with Tithi. Now she is here with me. She is doing good here but misses her family, friends and funs. Hope we can fulfill our hopes and dreams.

It was really good to be back to my own land. I hope to return to it for good, very soon!

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