Why Me Blog?

Won’t it be great if we did only as we liked and earned good money doing only that we liked?

That’s utopia. In 20 working years I have often managed both but rarely together.

Generally, my worst jobs paid the most and the good ones paid the least. The better jobs I somehow ended up doing free. The memorable ones saw me cheated of my dues. The truly best got me in debt. By god’s mercy, I have never done a job where both the work and the payoff were awful. Humiliating, yes. But awful, no!

It's been a good life so far but I sure can do better. Enter this blog. www.crappyjournalism.blogspot.com will work for me through you. Here’s how.

As its title suggests, I’ll use this blog to hit at CRAPPY JOURNALISM all around us – in newspapers, magazines, television, web, wherever – hopefully every day.

As part of this hitting at crappy journalism, I’ll do a lot of things, aimed mostly at exposing the total lack of basic skills among most Indian journalists. When I say total, I mean total. I have solid proof that 94.7% of Indian journalists are incompetent, ignorant and almost illiterate.

Oh yes, absolutely!

They use big words and clichés and write long sentences because their language skills are poor. They pedal the event as story because they don’t get its significance. Their write-ups/videos don’t build to climaxes because they’ve no frigging clue of construction. Worse, they’re vain and their work reflects it.

No, I’m not harsh. That’s the reality of Indian Journalism. Commoners don’t know this because there isn’t any direct comparison with global benchmarks. How many medals do you think India would win at an international Olympiad of Journalism? These far-less-than-able journalists are still to be caught because, well, where’s the public platform to catch them?

I’m an industry insider and I know better than to blame the ill paid, overworked and poorly trained juniors. In any case, the juniors merely follow the seniors’ orders, styles and questionable wisdom/vision. No. The juniors are free of shame.

The seniors who are the “think-tanks” are the bad boys. They fix daily news menus and are generally responsible for all you see in newspapers and television channels. Most seniors justify their fat salaries by bullying and sacking their juniors for gross failures that originate with them, the seniors. These seniors keep their jobs by sucking up and… but don’t you know this already?

My business strategy for this blog is to create an initial consumer base among the large numbers of miserable middle and junior print and TV journalists. Hey, buddies! I know for sure that the more pissed you're the more you’ll side with me. The other consumers for my blog are the 5.3% competent, knowledgeable and literate journalists – most my friends already.

That’s enough consumers to start with.

This blog will be a big hit with all you first-generation consumers. Reasons:
** My criticism will be very specific, logical and irrefutable. As you read the blog you’ll say, god, he’s damn right! Why couldn’t I see it earlier?
** Nearly always you’ll learn some solid theoretical point from my arguments. You’ll be, like, wow, I am becoming a great communicator!
** You’ll just love my exposing the big guns as, for the first time, you’ll know exactly why these biggies are very crappy, too.
** I’ll write with great wit, the surest way to win eyeballs. My wit will make you so envious you’ll wish to copy it and keep coming back for more.

For these reasons, you’ll soon be obsessed with my blog. You’ll then push everyone you know to consume it, too. Bingo! My blog’s consumer base will head northwards and I will begin to smell the sweet smell of sponsorship… umm.

In time, I’ll give up my job and make this blog my full-time occupation… thus earning a living from what I love – for the first time in my life!

Don’t believe me? Wait until tomorrow.