[Assam] Fwd: Editing standards

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From: shantikam hazarika <shntikamhaz at hotmail.com>
To: cmahanta at charter.net, assam at assamnet.org
Subject: Editing standards
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:01 AM

Mahanata:

These are typical Assamese misfortunes. DN Bezbaruah built up the Sentinel
over 22 years and gave it a somewhat professional elan, unthinkable in the
typical assamese mindset. And the edifice he built up collapsed within a
year of his departure because though he did build up quite a few young
journalists, I think he failed to educate his owner adequately.

Editing a news paper is not an easy job, apart from knowledge, you also
require hard and flexible work schedule. Hardwork is something I find most
Assamese people shun and most assamese people, even at high and responsible
places give priority to sleep, food, idleness over their work
responsibilities.

Do we really have choice except to grin and bear it?

Shantikam.


From: *Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>*
To: *"shantikam hazarika" <shntikamhaz at hotmail.com>, assam at assamnet.org*
Subject: *Editing AT and Sentinel*
Date: *Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:56:14 -0500*
>Hello H:
>
>
>>I think the letter to the editor published last friday was in very
>>poor taste. If there was a real editor in the Assam tribune, I am
>>sure it would not have gone through, but unfortunately both the
>>local English dailies are now edited by the owners themselves and
>>there standards have fallen like anything.
>
>
>**** I have been so appalled by the editorial standards of these two
>papers in recent days/weeks/months, that I was wondering what
>happened; how there isn't anyone left in Assam to write an editorial
>piece in these papers that would even qualify as an essay in a
>decent high-school with an average English language teaching
>ability.
>
>I guess the above explains that--to an extent!
>
>
>Not that I care, but I missed the Nehru letter.
>
>m

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Assam Institute of Management
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