It is one of those rare occasions in the history of journalism wherein a BBC reporter was denied interview by the F1GF2 curator. The request for an appointment was met with status message “Bit busy, doing nothing”. Repeated pleas from different international media houses like CNN, Discovery, Animal Planet etc... were met with the same status message. Not willing to quit the reporters have camped up outside the house of the curator.
As news about the international coverage the event was generating spread out the local media houses have swarmed the place. Given the sheer number of vernacular and national papers, channels, magazines the entire place looks like a war zone. Sensing trouble police personnel have been deployed to avoid any untoward incidents and are also on the lookout for the curator. The police have also evacuated few houses in the vicinity to the vantage of media. The entire area has been cordoned off for security reasons and top police officials have rushed in to oversee and control the situation.
Meanwhile, few beautiful reporter chicks have intelligently filled up the F1GF2 form to try their luck out. Taking a cue from this all the media houses are encouraging the best of their reporters to fill in the forms and also ensure their presence near the premises. The roads here resemble that of a fashion ramp with catwalks by reporters.
Unreliable sources have revealed that lots of famous and few not so famous personalities have also signed up for the F1GF2 initiative making this one of the most happening event in the decade so far.
Update 1 - The media houses had taken the issue with the ministry of Information and broadcasting and have requested help to sort out the impasse. The media houses seem to be exerting as much pressure as possible on the honorable ministry to get some juicy news for the hungry viewers and readers, as till now there is no other major breaking news to report. Indian cricketers obliging to the Bangladeshi request that Indian team is sub par than the Australians and South Africans, the Sena toning down their fight for the Mumbaikar have created scarcity for the headline mongers.
Update 2 – The ministry seems to have made some progress in holding a dialogue with F1GF2 officials. The latest status message of the curator shows that “Bit busy lazing around” against “Bit busy doing nothing” that was displayed earlier. This has spread a lot of cheer among the media personnel and given them hopes to get some juicy news.
Details about F1GF2 – www.bit.ly/f1gf2
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