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Don’t believe it? Check out the front page of today’s Deshabhimani newspaper (click on the image below to see the full and enlarged version). It says a man ate 68 dogs in a competition organized in America as part of the independence day. And the second prize winner ate the flesh of 64.5 dogs. If you are just stunned at how a person could eat 68 “dogs” in just 10 minutes, check out this link.
As the Malayalam saying goes, “kaala pettu ennu kekkumbum kayar edukkaruthu“…
OMG that’s the biggest goof up in malayalam newspaper history! I would like to meet the guy who translated the story.. just to shake his stands adn introduce him to hot-dogs.
ayyyoo…this is ultimate in news reporting…can’t help laughing out loud..
god!!!!
LOL! Yeah, I couldn’t believe it myself! Such a goof up, right there in the front page!
Lolllllzzz….fantastic …
what a mistake to make !!!!!! really hard to believe that they did not investigate the full story before publishing it on the front page itself… or maybe the reporter wanted to add some pun to the story and did it intentionally?????
I don’t think they did it intentionally, even though that might be the explanation that would come out from them.
Yuckyyy!! Are they men or wild animals?
this is a cleverly done hoax… the actual news was abt hot dogs .. somebody has edited the epaper.
check out deshabimaani site/actual print paper from that day.
The image in this post is a screen shot from yesterday’s e-paper from the Deshabhimani website.
http://www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/malayalamContentView.do?articleType=Malayalam+News&contentId=5680631&tabId=11&contentType=EDITORIAL&BV_ID=@@@
LOL
Very funny, I noticed the news couldn’t control my laughter
They apologized today but in inner page at bottom.
Ramya: It was actually a wrong news, referring to “hot dogs” as “dogs”.
Sijo: Thanks for the link.
Din: Good to know they finally admitted it.
@sai
LOL, no, not a hoax. Checkout the print version of the newspaper. I have it and seen that.
they are commies, what do you expect
Those who missed the print version
http://www.deshabhimani.com/e_paper/7chn070709.pdf – The apology
And they very cleverly changed the goofup in the epaper !!
But how to “delete” from the print version ?
LOL! True, Din!
I absolutely love hot dogs! At Cafe Coffee Day, hot dogs get over really soon. (I know, no direct relation with the topic.. even then, just saying.
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And yeah, what a goof up!
I m not able to laugh
other papers also make the same mistakes but no one cares. Deshabhimaani did admit their mistake and corrected it on their very next day’s paper. didn’t you see Mr.Joe? you knew the meaning of hot Dog thats why you made fun of them. but do you know the meaning usage of TORY ? if your honsest answer is no read on:
ബ്രിട്ടണിലെ സ്പീക്കറിനെപ്പറ്റി മാതൃഭൂമി : വാര്ത്ത :
“കണ്സര്വേറ്റീവ് പാര്ട്ടി അംഗമായ 46 കാരനായ ബെര്കോ ടോറിയില് നിന്നുള്ള പാര്ലമെന്റംഗവമാണത്രേ:)“ജോണ് ബെര്ക്കോ ബക്കിംഹാമില് നിന്നുള്ള എം പീ ആണ്. ടോരി എന്നത് കണ്സര്വേറ്റീവ് പാര്ട്ടിക്കാരെ പൊതുവേ വിളിയ്ക്കുന്ന ഒരു പേരാണ്. വിക്കി ഇവിടെ:
Tory MP Bercow is elected Speaker എന്ന ബീ ബീ സീ വാര്ത്ത പരിഭാഷിച്ചതാ
other papers also make the same mistakes but no one cares. Deshabhimaani did admit their mistake and corrected it on their very next day’s paper. didn’t you see Mr.Joe? you knew the meaning of hot Dog thats why you made fun of them. but do you know the meaning and usage of TORY ? if your honsest answer is no read on:
ബ്രിട്ടണിലെ സ്പീക്കറിനെപ്പറ്റി മാതൃഭൂമി : വാര്ത്ത :
“കണ്സര്വേറ്റീവ് പാര്ട്ടി അംഗമായ 46 കാരനായ ബെര്കോ ടോറിയില് നിന്നുള്ള പാര്ലമെന്റംഗവമാണത്രേ:)“ജോണ് ബെര്ക്കോ ബക്കിംഹാമില് നിന്നുള്ള എം പീ ആണ്. ടോരി എന്നത് കണ്സര്വേറ്റീവ് പാര്ട്ടിക്കാരെ പൊതുവേ വിളിയ്ക്കുന്ന ഒരു പേരാണ്. വിക്കി ഇവിടെ:
Tory MP Bercow is elected Speaker എന്ന ബീ ബീ സീ വാര്ത്ത പരിഭാഷിച്ചതാ
I did see that Deshabhimani published the apology. I did not give clean certificate to any other news papers in this post. In fact, Manorama is the most ignorant of them all and I have written about it in my blog numerous times. Which they have not fixed yet. Check out the following links:
http://jocalling.blogspot.com/2008/07/malayala-manorama-podcast-vs-m-pod.html
http://jocalling.blogspot.com/2008/07/malayala-manorama-doesnt-know-what.html
http://www.jocalling.com/2008/11/malayala-manorama-get-well-soon/
@bijukottappuram
There are a lot of people who do not know whats the meaning of ‘Hot Dog’. And many know only after these goofup came. But when a newspaper publish something,that also in the front page, it is totally different matter. They need to verify it.
And anyone whos having lil commensense will think this – Eating 60 dogs in 10 mins ? WOW, that is unbelievable. And if they have internet access (I do not think Deshabhimani journalists are not tech savvy) they will just type in that in google to get more details.
A journalist should be more responsible as the newspaper is ready by lakhs of people.
And Deshabhimani was the same newspaper who gave news on “Free incoming calls” last year. Remember ?
Every newspaper does something, but when something like this happens, everyone make fun of it, can’t blame them, we are all humans
[...] PS: The copyright of the images given below remains with Malayala Manorama. I should leave proper credits for them, even though they make false claims such as “Manorama Podcast is the first podcast in Malayalam” etc and would never correct it (Deshabhimani is far better in this case, I believe. At least they apologized for their recent goof-up). [...]
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It was not a hoax,I had seen the day’s paper,what is seen as the days edition on Deshabhimani’s site is a corrected version. And it does not come as a surprise,since the mallu journos are not very known for their worldy knowledge. They never care for whats going around the globe,but in Kerala and their news reports are regional news and politics in Kerala.