{"id":836,"date":"2008-04-18T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=836"},"modified":"2008-04-18T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T11:07:24","slug":"front-page-retractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2008\/04\/18\/front-page-retractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page Retractions &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. are always fun (except for the newspaper concerned), but they take a life of their own when the newspaper masks the fact that it has been made an idiot, by taking the moral high ground&#8230;..&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What am I talking about&#8230;. well, it is about the famous [tag]Maliaka Arora[\/tag] and [tag]Arbaaz Khan[\/tag] break up reported in all its glory in the [tag]Mumbai Mirror[\/tag] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/net\/mmpaper.aspx?page=article&amp;sectid=15&amp;contentid=2008041720080417024250281d87559e2&amp;pageno=1\"><strong>yesterday<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font>One of the sultriest women in <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.mumbaimirror.com\/ads.aspx?adid=22\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> is said to be single again. Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora&#039;s 10-year-old marriage has gone kaput. Buzz is Arbaaz has found a new love. The disintegration of one of the strongest marriages in Bollywood has sent shock waves through the industry.&nbsp; <\/font>&#8230;&#8230;<font>Our well-placed source in the entertainment industry also tells us that Arbaaz will not remain single for long. He has already decided to remarry and even has a girl in mind, who is, incidentally, not from the entertainment industry. <\/font><font>When contacted, Malaika refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p> Arbaaz, however, said, &quot;I don&#039;t want to comment on my personal life or on Malaika.&quot; When we asked him whether he&#039;s planning to remarry, he said, &quot;Why is the press so impatient? They will know whether I&#039;m remarrying or not in due time. I will probably talk about it soon. At this moment I don&#039;t want to say anything further<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;However, this morning was the retraction masked in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/net\/mmpaper.aspx?page=article&amp;sectid=15&amp;contentid=2008041820080418024210796c2a22bda\"><strong>outrage<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; &#039;we have been made a fool&#8230;but how could they, we trusted them&quot;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<font>Yesterday, on the front page of this newspaper we carried a story about Malaika Arora splitting up with her husband Arbaaz Khan. We were told by none other than Malaika herself that her husband was &quot;remarrying&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> There were many reasons why we thought the story deserved front-page treatment: Malaika Arora is a huge pin-up star and Arbaaz is a celebrity in his own right, and comes from one of film industry&#039;s most-respected families. In an environment where celebrity unions crumble faster than cookies the two, who have been married for 10 years and are parents of a five-year-old boy, offered a great example of a happy family unit in the face of relentless public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p> John Updike defined celebrity as a mask that eats into your face. Apparently it also chews up your integrity. It turns out that our story was false. Not for want of journalistic rigour on our part&#8211;the reporter did what any journalist sould do on receiving a tip-off&#8211; he called up both Malaika and Arbaaz for their versions. Both, through commission and omission, lied brazenly to the reporter<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would anyone do something like that ? The answer is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/net\/mmpaper.aspx?page=article&amp;sectid=15&amp;contentid=2008041820080418024210796c2a22bda\">simple <\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font>Both husband and wife had been contracted by a cosmetics company to launch a skin-care product, and the campaign, unveiled on Thursday night, revolved around Arbaaz playing Adonis to his wife&#039;s Aphrodite. They used the myth to renew their vows on stage, thus the sham of remarriage.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not sure whether the outrage is because the journalist got played for a fool (as did the paper) or whether it is because <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/39286961.cms\"><strong>Medianet<\/strong> <\/a>got left out of the deal&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to publish publicity as news, then expect those who want publicity to use your paper to their own end&#8230;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to lie down with the dogs, expect to catch a few fleas&#8230;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;I haven&#039;t had such a good laugh in years&#8230;.:) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. are always fun (except for the newspaper concerned), but they take a life of their own when the newspaper masks the fact that it has been made an idiot, by taking the moral high ground&#8230;..&nbsp; What am I talking about&#8230;. well,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,23,27,35],"tags":[755,781,1023,1029,1035,1100,1146,1206,1556],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-finally","category-india","category-media","category-print","tag-india","tag-indian-media","tag-media","tag-media-ethics","tag-media-integrity","tag-mumbai-mirror","tag-news-media-2","tag-paid-for-content","tag-tabloid-journalism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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