They say one can't concentrate while eating but i've seen so many reporter friends here who make an excuse of reporting for eating. Free lunch!A reporter friend asked me whether i would be attending a press meet somewhere in Kathmandu. I had some other things to do, so i said no. In response to my negative reaction, the friend sent me a text message: "Let's go, they are serving good food." I wondered whether the journo friend was going for a reporting or for a free lunch. Maybe for both but the msg surely disgusted me.
Imagine, you are speaking something important at a press conference and the media people gathered turn into 'chewing and drinking faces'. If you are hungry, perhaps you would also like to eat but considering the mike in front and a topic in your mind, the distracted faces savoring the taste of Real Juice or cookies irritate you...
I've come to know about 'bhaatay patrakaars'--those who find out the daily engagements in the city from a newspaper like Gorkhapatra, and then pick the ones being organized in big Hotels. They don't even have to be a reporter as no one asks them about their cards at the programme. If, in case, they are asked to 'register' their names, they would do under somebody else's name.. they don't care what happens in the programme, all they care is what they get after the programme. They help thesmelves very well..and pamper their insatiable appetite with second and third helpings....(Sadly, i don't have their pictures, next time, maybe i will try to get some and post here.. )
You can't really control these kind of circumstances but you can definitely take precautionary measures:1. If you are an organizer--i) If you "have to" provide food, do that only at the end of the program, not when the program is taking place, like it happens at our famous press clubs.
ii) ask your people at the 'registration' to look for valid ID cards of the bhaatay patrakaars in disguise.
2. If you are a reporter--Take notes or get your querries answered first. When everybody is done with speaking and questioning and the stage is cleared, then only help yourself. That way, you will save yourself from critics like me. :)
4 comments:
Oi, malai thaha chha tyo manchhe who texted you. bhandiu? bhandiu?? bhandiur??? laj parchhe ni. but this is the fact.
This is what we can do, write or comment if you dont write or confide it to your friends. Muk Darsak.
Can we stop it? I am not optimistic.
bhannay haina!! jaannay badhi!!
ani tyo topoic ko baarayma ta tehi ta ho...haamilaai kati apthyaaro laagya thiyo hai yak n yeti ma?? maanchhay haru bhanay testo paaye samma reporting baalai ho, khaana chaai "thaal bhari nai ho" garchhan...
ani pessimist pani bhai nahaalumna...haamro generation lay maybe gardaina ki teti saaro achaakli!!
hamro generation ma pani sabaile tyo socheko chha jasto lagdain
Free lunch does seem good. Tara, going for a press meet only for that is well, unethical practice. Them organizers know this by heart: spend a little more on foods and them reporters WILL write good things about it. It's like nun ko sojo gareko type. Hoina ra?
You are in serious field reporting, so you have had to face these afthyaro issues haru hoina? At least more than us.
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