Student’s protesting against Nitish?

May 10, 2007

Kidnapper gangs back with a bang in Nitish’s Bihar.

Bihar Kidnappings

This image possibly from AFP (ibnlive doesn’t recognize that) appears on todays news item about the spurt in Kidnappings in Bihar. The caption below the news item reads,

MISSING LINK: Bihar has seen a huge spurt in kidnappings in the past three months.

But this image is a file image shot during the student protests against kidnappings while Laloo Yadav was in power. While using the image per se is not unethical, shouldn’t IBNLive mention that this is a file photo? Or do they want to catch the attention of the reader by making him think that students are protesting against the ‘recent spurt in kidnappings’ under Nitish rule?

Here in this BBC report from January 2005, the same image had been used. That news item indicates that the image is from AFP and is clearly about the Children protesting against Kidnappings.


Paris Hilton, naked!

May 10, 2007

Paris Hilton found naked, dead?

How did Paris Hilton end up in a former Brooklyn garage – naked, provocatively posed and seemingly very, very dead?

This made it to the headlines, days after Paris Hilton hits the news for her Jail Sentence.


India’s best, indeed!

May 10, 2007

IBNLive wins award

“IBNlive.com is for us a window to the future. We believe that IBnlive.com is setting a benchmark for Indian news websites. The passion and innovation that IBnlive.com has shown makes us all very proud. This is only the beginning, the best is yet to come,” he [Rajdeep Sardesai] says.

Yes, the best news site in India writes its name as “IBnlive.com”. Perhaps they were too busy celebrating to bother about the small ‘n’ there.