What would you do if traditional media gives false information

I had talked about bloggers not being trusted source of information. But its not just the bloggers or the new media which needs trust of its readers. The traditional media too needs it. But the traditional media has to its advantage belief of its reader set to trust mode. But there are several newspapers who are losing their trust each day some readers at a time. The latest one being Mid Day. I am sure that if not anyone else, it has lost my trust. All for this one article which was published on 14th August 2007 on page A21 and A23 in Mid Day, Mumbai.
I being a ex-employee of Tata Elxsi know that this whole article is a fairy tale. The fact of the matter is that all the photos are nothing but a shoot just like for some movie. Tata Elxsi does not promote anything that was quoted in the article. It just seems to have come out of fantasy of the writer Priyadarshini Nandy. I having the first hand knowledge and I know the culture and the environment in which people work there. That itself being one of the primary reasons for me to look out for other opportunities. I am sure that I am not the only one who did so. There would be many. I would request anyone with similar experience to add a comment or a traceback link for the post they might have written. I actually did not plan to comment on Tata Elxsi as such but this article has made me think otherwise. So here it is point wise.

Fist fights are common here and cheating is more than welcome.

Sure they are, as common as snow fall in Thar desert.

“So, we freak out in the bus too,” says Deepak. “Our latest game is rather interesting — people have to balance in the aisle without holding anything, for as long as possible. No one’s gone very far yet!”

Sure I have never seen that happen. I know when we started playing dumb charades in bus, the first opposition came from none other than the HRs themselves. Next we heard from the admin that people dance in the bus. I hardly could understand with the buses bouncing all the time over the potholes of Bangalore, how could anyone stand, leave alone dance. Now I hear this new game. Hmm good imagination at work.

Everyone gets together in the cafeteria, ready to dive at the cake, and rip gifts open.

Rip the gifts open. Dude in my 2 years in Tata Elxsi I never ever saw that happening in cafeteria. May be in those two year I never had a birthday coming(No I am not born on 29th Feb by any chance ). Sure loads of imagination at work at Mid Day.

“At last year’s New Year bash, we organised a contest where employees had to decorate their bay according to the state they came from,” says HR manager, Gurmeet Dugal.

Wow, we have a new meaning to the word bash. A new year bash. I must have been really deeply involved in work to not realize that there was a New Year Bash. I remember decorating, not just my bay but the entire floor, based on the theme chosen by certain individuals. But New Year Bash. Come on. Nothing like a bash exists in the releams of Tata Elxsi.

Now let me come to the pictures in the first page. All the pictures have been taken as a Mid Day exclusives. So are most of the pics in the following page. The pictures which are captioned as competition are actually performances by different people. There goes all the Mid Day credibility.

My only take on this is. DO NOT TRUST MID DAY ON ANY REPORT. Yes thats in caps for obvious reasons. I know for sure that what it reported was wrong. I am very sure that other stories too will be figments of imagination. So if you want some masaledar stories, sure read Mid Day. But if you want information, sure you can look at any other alternatives.

Confrontation:
http://the100rabh.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-as-blogger-has-affected-someone.html
Finally a confession:
http://the100rabh.blogspot.com/2007/08/game-set-match-won.html