Tabloids in Indian Media
We must have seen numerous posts bashing T(sl)imes of India, and how bad and cheap the quality is. Well, add one more to it.
I had some time in hand, so decided to see perform a small experiment on how bad is TOI really. I took the HTML source code of the headlines section in samachar.com and wrote a small script to detect words that make TOI so famous. Even if one of the words match, I account that headline. For comparison sake, I did the same on 4 other papers - Sify news, Hindustan Express, Hindu and Indian Express.
The result was not unexpected. Samachar gives the top 5 headlines of each of these papers. TOI wins hands down - average cheapo headlines is 2.48 per day. Hindu seems like the most conservative of all.
toi
Seems like Tuesday is a "holy" day for TOI!. Cheapo headline count = 0.
Note: Samachar holds only 7 days of archived news. Maybe more rules like these can be mined if I set a robot. Finally, my DM training is being put to use.
Just for fun!!
Have a nice weekend.
I had some time in hand, so decided to see perform a small experiment on how bad is TOI really. I took the HTML source code of the headlines section in samachar.com and wrote a small script to detect words that make TOI so famous. Even if one of the words match, I account that headline. For comparison sake, I did the same on 4 other papers - Sify news, Hindustan Express, Hindu and Indian Express.
The result was not unexpected. Samachar gives the top 5 headlines of each of these papers. TOI wins hands down - average cheapo headlines is 2.48 per day. Hindu seems like the most conservative of all.
toi
Seems like Tuesday is a "holy" day for TOI!. Cheapo headline count = 0.
Note: Samachar holds only 7 days of archived news. Maybe more rules like these can be mined if I set a robot. Finally, my DM training is being put to use.
Just for fun!!
Have a nice weekend.
posted by tt_giant at
8:01 PM
4 Comments:
You are a Geek ! I'd like to know about this assumption
Even if one of the words match, I account that headline.
Why?
By
Narayanan Venkitu, at June 03, 2005 11:26 PM
Narayanan: Thanks for coming.
I made that assumption because I did not want to waste more time scripting!!. Now am i a geek?
By
tt_giant, at June 04, 2005 9:40 AM
I think the methodology was ok but perhaps sample sizes make all the difference :-)
By
Krish, at June 06, 2005 10:44 AM
hee hee
By
tt_giant, at June 06, 2005 12:52 PM
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