Similar to The Hindu's 'The Year in a Glance' publication, which it releases with the newspaper on the last day of every calender year, Faking News has decided to release its own version of The Year in a Glance. While The Hindu version would provide a gist of all important happenings in a chronological order, Faking News intends to release a chronological list of corruption around the country.
Faking News Chief Editor Pagal Patrakar has said that there was enough corruption news to cover every date in 2010. The lesser known/low public interest news would be in small font in black & white, while news-makers like Suresh Kalmadi & B.S. Yedyurappa would feature in larger fonts with passport sized caricature photos. No, there's further innovation. Every corruption news would be accompanied by a denial statement at the top, and funniest tweet about the corruption from satirists/common man at the bottom. If the publication is received well, FN also plans to release a CD of TIMES NOW coverage of corruptions in chronological order, in partnership with Moserbaer Home Entertainment.
Pagal Partakar said some pieces were very challenging, and required careful attention of the editor. For example, the ones like this: 10 AM: Adarsh Land Scam, 12 PM: CWG Audit, 2 PM: Kochi IPL. Faking News has also decided to dedicate a page to articles that made it to the news, inspite of BS Yedyurappa or Prasar Bharti CEO BS Lalli. Sources say the article featuring MS Dhoni-Sakshi photo at Goa beach might top the page. The penultimate page of the publication would be sponsored by VETA, India's no.1 English training institute. The page would feature a list of English words that the public managed to learn, thanks to non-stop flashing on news channels during corruption coverages. The last page would have internet links of the best satire blogs/websites which covered the corruption year 2010.
Meanwhile, Pagal Patrakar's secretary revealed to us that PP had submitted a written plea to the President, urging her to declare 2010 as The Year of Corruption and the Year of Satire Boom. The plea has been jointly signed by Twitter users @bigfatphoenix, @krishashok, @diogeneb among many others.
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