Mid Day - Not what it used to be. Review on Mid-Day

MidDay Started its newspaper way back in mid 1979. Started by Ayaz Memon, it was Bombay's most popular afternoon daily which specifiacl;ly had all news coverage of bombay city. The News contents however slowly detriorated in the last 2-3 years with Mid Day reaching the lowest form of news coverage in the last year when the news paper got a face lift. Many expected that a face lift would mean more news and more solutions to the problems of citizens of bombay with extensive investigative journalism. However readers were in for a shock when the new look meant more advertisements, less words, more pictures, less letters to the editors (Earlier there would be atleast 14-15 letters now there space is given to only 3-4). They have started columns like Letter to the municipal commissioner for civic problems of the readers, health columns, personal guidance columns, excellent column for children by Mukesh Khanna and educational columns. But theyt are very few and far in between. The primary job of any newspaper , specially afternoon dalies, is to provide readers with in depth and non biased information on curent events. Mid Day has failed to that in the last 2-3 years. While current price rises and recession news are not covered, what ius covered is..How The sun of actor Suresh Oberoi may demand 10 million rupees per movie or why bal thakrey should call a permanent cease fire with pro valentine day activiss or why Amar Upadhay should be bough back alive in a popular (eeks!!) night soap on television. With the sole exception of Suresh Prabhu and mukesh khanna no one writes anything worthwile. They have journalists (sadly thats what they call themselves) like shoba de whoi writes about which party she attended last or why shahrukh khan is a good person in the film industry. Or someone like anil dharker who is forever crying in his columns. There are inumerable other instances where this once popular newspaper had showed its lowest form. Mid Day does have once in a while investigative journalism but thats ver very far and few in between. Where are those journalists like Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Lowell Bergman, Mike Wallace, Daniel Pearl and Arun Shourie when you really miss them ? The Case of jayabala Asher who had been thrown out of a train a few years back was handled very well by mid day. So were the post srikrishna commission reports proceedings handled well by jyoti punwani. In sports section mid day is perhaps the only newspaper which gives elusive coverage to local city sporting events in order to boost up the morale3s of the youngsters. But Mid day must stop printing reports oin film stars or page 3 celebrities or ''Happening parties'' in the news paper and concentrate only on the important issues and problems in the city. The Sun Day Mid day is the best one of the week. On the whole Mid Day is good for only one thing. I need the newspaper every evening whn I attend the natures call or else I will get constipapted. Its good only for that. Reading in the loo. Did you know that mid day had actually carried a poll asking people how 'dakshaben' ( a character from a stupid night soap on star tv) should exit?

One more thing...Because Times Of India and Mid Day are newspapers with the highest circulation in bombay so there are many classifiedsfor job vacancies. I suggest anyone looking for a job do buy these newspapers (especially on wednesday)..Atleast thats where these newspaper score big