An apology

If you have had the strength to wade through the morass of entries on this site you may recall the shocking scandal of the stolen photograph; blown out of all proportion by me for the purpose of entertainment. For those of you who need a reminder, look here and here.

My son, who is good at these things, pointed out that the journalist who wrote the article had a presence on Facebook, the slightly deranged social networking site of which I am a member for reasons I have long forgotten; but I suspect it was Billy’s fault (Billy has an excellent blog, but you will just have to take my word for it because it is members only, due to the fact that he spends much of his time slagging off his current and my ex-employer).

So I wrote to the lady concerned expressing my general disgruntlement and was amazed to receive a reply; which was along the lines that she had no input over which photos were used and where they came from, which is fair comment. I then had a message from the editor, Mr. Chuman Das:

My apologies for all this, but the picture was of excellent quality. And it certainly added to our story. Will definitely inform you next time, but last time around we were not aware they were your pix.

Obviously, as soon as I got to the “excellent quality” bit, all the antagonism evaporated and I lapsed into a state of toporific self-satisfaction which lasted a full five minutes. So, thank you Mr. Das, and the India Times website is now officially removed from the Pattaya Days boycott list, which will no doubt see their web hits increase substantially again. In fact I highly recommend a visit to their website photo gallery which today features the very photogenic Ms. Deepika Padukone. Sadly I took none of the photographs, but if Mr. Das could arrange for a photoshoot then I would gladly provide all the shots for free.

Comments 🔗

2008-06-26 | mart says

“Tout commence bien qui finit bien!” BTW I was impressed as well by the photographs…

2008-06-27 | Spike says

C’est vrais monsieur Mart. Et Merci.

2008-06-27 | mart says

Oh come on, just call me Mini! ;)