Plagiarism. Times of India Style.
So I was reading the front page of the Bangalore Times (BT) when I saw what was billed as an exclusive interview that BT managed to get with Jennifer Aniston. Me being skeptical me, I had to check. As usual, they have stooped low.
This is a fabricated interview and plagiarized at that. The quotes are almost verbatim from an interview Ms. Aniston gave to the Daily Mirror.
Curiously, the website version of this ToI article, omits the exclusive interview tag to the interview.
In Red is from the Times of India article. In blue is from the interview in the Daily Mirror. He's a wonderful man — the cream of the crop. He is a great comedian and an amazing, dramatic actor. I always loved watching him as an actor. He thinks and he listens too. You don't always get that sort of fun with someone.
“He is the cream of the crop,” says the actress whose own comedy skills in Friends won her a fistful of awards. “He is a great comedian and an amazing dramatic actor. I always loved watching him as an actor. He thinks and he listens. He is a generous actor and likes to try things and I like to try things, too. You don’t always get that sort of fun with someone and feel like you’re on an equal playing field.”
People are lazy these days. Things are just more disposable. People don't value relationships enough, be it friends or married people.
"People are very lazy and it's very easy," she says. "Things are just more disposable. There's not a lot of value put on relationships."
You have to put a lot of work into it and exhaust every option before you split.
Then she adds, somewhat wryly: "You have to put a lot of work into it and exhaust every option before you split up."
I thought it was a joke. When my agent called me, I said, 'You have got to be kidding me.' But making it was therapeutic.
"I thought it was a joke," Jennifer says of the agent's phone call. "I thought, 'You have got to be kidding me.' But making it was definitely therapeutic."
So, who is Reagan Gavin Rasquinha? And how did he manage such an exclusive! ;-)
Update: MadMan had referred to the ToI as the Slimes of India and so I decided to do a Google search for the term. Lo and behold, the answer was:
The Google bomb has worked!
5 comments:
The Slimes of India regularly plagiarises interviews of Hollywood celebrities and publishes them in their city supplements. They also steal celeb gossip and rumours for their back page from well-known celeb Web sites.
They've been doing this for ages. It's "exclusive" because it's exclusively plagiarised for ToI. ;)
And the original copyright owners don't complain or couldn't be arsed to complain?
Me thinks the ToI gets away with it only because it's in far, far away India!
Maybe I should start copying from the ToI. Then again, given their quality (on par with gossip rags, eh?!) I'd rather not!
BB, you better not.
Not just yet!
this is Reagan Gavin Rasquinha from Bombay Times. I read the posts on this thread and felt that I need to explain the way the business works, so as to explain to people who aren't in the know how things happen. An international star can and will service interviews to several publications via email or the telephone. Sometimes, what the interviewee says is repeated. This repetition is at the sole discretion of the interviewee. For example, if you are interviewing me and I tell you that I like ice cream, I will also tell another publication that I like ice cream. That is because my answers/preferences/statements don't change with every person I talk to. Answers from an interviewee are most often routed through the star's publicist too. There is no room to be misquoted in this manner. That said, look forward to my telephonic with Enigma. I spoke to Cretu a few weeks ago while he was in Germany. Cheers =)
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