(The Hoot) Journalists are supposed to search for information, put it in context and if it has layers of complications, then interpret it without taking sides. That is quintessential journalism because benefits accrue to the reader who pays to buy the newspaper. The trend that is noticeable these days is the preoccupation of journalists with the need to spin, twist or as the British image builders said during Tony Blair's days when war againstIranwas successfully advocated, sex it up.

Here is an example of such a story in the Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on September 8, 2010 by members of its reporting staff: it said, in effect, that the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM)'s commissioner, Swadhin Kshatriya “blamed the ‘influx of outsiders' for the mounting environmental woes of the city.” It was a point he made in the preface to the Environmental Status Report on the city for 2009-10.