Poor journalism by Joel Julien

[Sumana]

'Birthday' farewell for burn victim

Joel Julien jjulien@trinidadexpress.com


Saturday, December 15th 2007



But as the chutney song "Aaye Bhi Akela" blasted from the speaker of one the many mourners' cars which lined the street, tears began to flow.

The Boodram Holass song translates to "we come alone, we die alone".





In bold is the part of the article that pissed me the hell off. If this idiot did his research he would know that Aaye Bhi Akela is not a chutney song. How the flippen hell you'll be @ a funeral and playing chutney? Then this man doesn't even understand the concept of what chutney song is. Needless to say he has a nice letter in his email from me just waiting for him :roll:
Hell it's not even a Boodram Holass song, it's from the movie Dost and it's now been adapted as a Bhajan.



Where Falcon he'll get vex with me too :x :x :x :x

[BW]

*wooooossssssssahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

=|

[Sumana]

:lol: :lol: :lol: yeah I just went on a cleaning rampage after that

[Falcon]

ignorance again!!!
Why no editors in TT insist on quality control? Stewwwwps, substandard people in important jobs- trying to dumb down everybody else.

[Solachica]

:roll:
I never hear chutney played in a funeral nuh.

[Scorpio]

Yeah that was a silly piece of journalism. :shock:

[vaio]

ill-informed and sub-standard....

[KFCSpicy]

well i for one doh know de diff but i would have gone away quoting de article like it was set in stone. If anybody did challenge meh de fuss thing I would have said was "but it een de papers dread".

Thanks Sumana!

[vaio]

i heard another dumb thing today....one reporter referred to Hazel Manning as the first lady.... :roll:

[Sumana]

well i for one doh know de diff but i would have gone away quoting de article like it was set in stone. If anybody did challenge meh de fuss thing I would have said was "but it een de papers dread".

Thanks Sumana!


hehe no scenez

[dancerboy]

The pentecostal, and some evangelical churches call the pastor's wife 'THE FIRST LADY', also. THAT'S STRANGE. AH wonder if HILLARY CLINTON, becomes president, would her husband be referred to as 'THE FIRST MAN ? DANCERBOY

[Sumana]

So the guy was really nice,
He called me yesterday and explained everything said that he asked a radio personality from the Indian Stations about the song. When he told me the radio personality - I was like yeah we keep asking him to shut up and not shame us - one of the most dunce people ever
But anyways, he apologised was really really apologetic and then asked me if for further articles if he can call on me for clarification
A stark contrast from the guy in Guardian.

[Solachica]

U emailed him and left your number?
You sure the man wasn't mamaguying yuh?

[Sumana]

:lol: :lol: :lol: my email signature has my phone # in it since I was in university away, never really changed it esp since i sent out resumes from that address.

[Solachica]

Well anyway was good of him to call u. Hope he ent make same mistake again.
And whoever advised his real dotish. :roll:

[Sumana]

So i was impressed, the guy called me again today to clarify 2 things in an article he was writing
and my maid laughing at me and was like u have the poor guy scared to write now