Redefine Rediff... puhlz..

Rediff.com and Indiatimes.com are the most common websites that I visit, to update myself about things happening back home. I suppose much like Yahoo and Google in the global market, they too make their strategies based one each others progress and initiatives.

But, over a period of time, REDIFF has absolutely lost the plot. Following the footsteps of many other over-hyped and Zilch news reporting agencies, they just copy+paste stuff from some other source and modify the headlines to attract consumers. What hurts the most is that, almost everytime the headline has a religious/sex/racial overtone to it. Dear Rediff, If you cannot market yourself well and cannot publish/report your own stories, i understand. Your incapability is sympathized with. But please dont use cheap and stupid tactics to make readers read the news you so balantly modify and publish. If I were an agency you took information/news from and modified the headlines for you own bloody benefit, I would sue the very lasy penny from you.

You buggers, like most other countrymen, just want to use someone else's hardwork, add your supposed flavor, which most of the time is offending and fake and scream loudly that you have achieved something.

Lets take a small example. Today rediff has a story which goes with the headline 'Religious concerns take beef off British Airways' menu'. Now I travel British Airways sometimes, and was curious. What has happened that BA had to take this step. Was there any mishap, or its plain pleasing to a particular community. I clicked on the link and read the entire article.

While reading the story I came across the following line too..
"It has nothing to do with the fear of causing offence -- we always offer alternative meals for people with special dietary requirements if they order in advance," the spokesperson said, adding, "We are still serving beef-based meals on certain menus in First Class and Club World and are currently deciding on whether or not to use beef on the menus for World Traveller customers for the winter season."

Now can someone please explain to me, why has rediff such a distracting headline when the spokesperson clearly states the opposite. Is there something which i have not read or failed to understand in the article. Why bring the religious sentiments into the picture. Why not agree that beef prices have sky rocketed and hence the change. REDIFF, just shutdown the server and go home! Stop the crap reporting you guys do now-a-days.....

Ok, let me check for some other fake, crap stories published on rediff.. just a sec... going to the stupid site again....

Ok found one stupid one.. 'Akshay: Getting a PhD better than an Oscar' Now, firstly, I wonder if Akshay has used the same words as mentioned in the headline. If he has then I have 2 questions. One, a normal person can do a sensible comparison only between things he has felt/known/understood. Akshay is a good actor, but we all know he will NEVER EVER win an Oscar award. So how come he can say that getting that fake Phd is better than an Oscar. I can be proven wrong if Oscar is the name of his dog and for Akshay getting this Phd was better than getting the puppy??? weird eh? Rediff has started to make me think like a crazy nut too....

But yes, I did not have the patience to read the entire 75 minute interview and I dont really care. What I do know is that rediff has lost its plot somewhere. The management or whatever is running the website needs to do some serious introspection and understand that using hatred against the west, using religious gimmicks, using fake sexual/racial discriminating headlines will not really work. Yea may be we will check the site, but once we read the article and realise that rediff has basically fooled us into reading it, we pray for the closure of the website and end of the torture you guys are giving us.

Dear Rediff Editor, please go and read some better website. My blogs, though totally amateurish, are real and not fake like ur headlines. You can sleep with a better conscience like me, rather than faking and sleeping like a bum.

Adios!

P.S: My fav site is www.cnn.com!!!