Every profession has its quirks. And so does journalism. One of them, I realised recently, is that it makes you ‘say things’ that you would have never said otherwise. For instance:
Hello? Rashtrapati Bhavan? Hi. Could I please get the beggar’s number who came to meet the President?
Boss. I will be back in an hour. I am going down to catch a ‘spitter’.
Waah! What a headline! Chal, now let’s think of a story!
Give me five minutes. I will just do Deepika (Padukone) and come.
Fuck the story. Picture hai naa?
Mom. I will be late. I am going for Radhe Guru Maa’s Jaagran.
Arre sacchi! My boss asked me to go for Radhe Maa’s Jaagran!!!
The page is looking so bad. Get a nanga picture dude!
What’s with the ads? The edit space is a fucking THONG!
(After ads are reduced) OK. So now it’s a chaddi.
And of course, the all-encompassing …
AAP KO KAISA LAG RAHA HAI?
Just that someone from an English-language publication will say, ‘So. How did you feel when….’ And just because it’s in English, it doesn’t sound so stupid. (But that doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid).
2 comments:
And dude,you forgot the famous 'Don't give me poppy-talk'
'Sensationalize the story'
'Are you sure the source does'nt want to be qouted?'
And asking people things like:
"Arre kuch toh kia hoga? Nose job, boob job, you must have done something na?"
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