The new jaijaidin :(

sunny747 · #1 June 19, 2006, 07:38 AM

Hello, i have a doubt how many of you are jaijaidin fan but i couldn't get proper forum to talk about it. Jaijaidin has recently turned into daily newspaper from weekly magazine. So far the performance, really suck. The weekly magazine was so far better and i used to enjoy reading it. Now why should i read jaijaidin anymore? There are plenty of daily newspapers online which are infact much better in contents and news. Their website is not at all user friendly and arrangement of news is not proper. There is no article like b4.
Well, i'm not sure whether they are still publishing their weekly jaijaidin magazine. Coz i don't find that online anymore.
www.jaijaidin.com

Miraz · #2 June 19, 2006, 07:59 AM

I am really surprised to see the below par performance of Daily Jaijaidin. I have not expected this from Shafiq Rehman. I was reading Jai Jai din for the last 10-15 years and new look jai Jai Din is really disgusting.

sunny747 · #3 June 19, 2006, 08:10 AM

Miraz, do you know whether the jaijaidin weekly magazine still exist or not? or is it just dead?
Shafiq rehman has gone too commercial these days. I heard he got the land for free where his new jaijaidin office is located. He exploited the goverment official by saying abt the daily jaijaidin newspaper and hence applied for land. ANyway, don't know how much true it is.

Miraz · #4 June 19, 2006, 08:57 AM

Jaijaidin weekly does not exist right at the moment. Shafiq Rehman will bring it again if daily fails.

tiger_man · #5 June 19, 2006, 10:01 AM

ya my dad was a fan of jaijai din....still is probably .....i didnt like it coz i wudnt understand most of the talks there.....that was in the old days..

Frost · #6 June 19, 2006, 05:34 PM

I WAS a Jai Jai Din fan for long time. Before BNP's current term they somehow maintained their balance. However, recently (specially after 2000) they turned into a government propoganda machine. They still do criticize oppositions (most of the times rightly); but they fail to do so for governments wrong doing these days - instead they try to spin it in their way.

Fazal · #7 June 19, 2006, 05:58 PM

jai-Jai Core-o Jai-Jai-er Din ar to Jai na. Ebar Money Hoi Asoleyee Jabee.

SMHasan · #8 June 19, 2006, 09:03 PM

একি আশ্চর্য দেখিলাম!বাংলা যায়যাদিন এ বাংলাদেশেরই মানুষ বাংলার কথা বলে বাংলিশে লিখে!ছিঃ ছিঃ কি লজ্জা...ধিক তোমায় যায়যায়দিন।
ইংরেজি লিখার যদি এতই শখ থাকে তাহলে ইংরেজি সংবাদপত্র বের করলেই পারে!নাহলে এক কাজ করা যাক। ইংরেজি কাগজ বের করে তার মাঝে মাঝে বাংলা ঢুকিয়ে দিলে কেমন হয়? ঠিক যেন এই উক্তির মত "আগে নাটকের মাঝে মাঝে বিজ্ঞাপন দিত আর এখন বিজ্ঞাপনের মাঝে মাঝে নাটক দেয়"

sunny747 · #9 June 20, 2006, 03:37 AM

I wanted to mail jaijaidin, but they haven't provided any email address on their site.....Probably they know that they will be showered by hate mails. I used like jaijadin just coz of their authors. Never used to read political news though.

tiger_man · #10 June 21, 2006, 04:41 AM

i guess jai jai din's new innovation kinda backfired...

jaijaidin was better off the way it was.....their conversion to a daily newspaper is like Times magazine merging with playboy magazine....a sure failure...

Dream theater · #11 July 16, 2006, 10:30 AM

Yeah I agree to the point that New Jaijidin is not in the same league as old weekly one. But let us wait and see. If I am not misteken Jaijaidin tried the daily format once before. That attempt failed. Let us see whether they can improve enough to keep their old fan base intact.

Miraz · #12 July 16, 2006, 10:36 AM

New Jai Jai din is getting better every day. The OLD Jai Jai Din is published on every Tuesday as 'Politics and Society' supplement of Jai Jai Din.

Still not up to the mark as a National Daily. Keeping my finger crossed.

Hatebreed · #13 July 16, 2006, 01:14 PM

I hardly read this mag, haven't read the daily yet but if it's as bad as people are saying then I suppose Daily Jaijaidin will be counting its days soon..

Rubu · #14 July 16, 2006, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sunny747
I wanted to mail jaijaidin, but they haven't provided any email address on their site.....Probably they know that they will be showered by hate mails. I used like jaijadin just coz of their authors. Never used to read political news though.

they do. look at the bottom of the page. I wrote them about changing the font as it was hard to read the hand writing style font, and now look, its traight!

about being it daily, i do not read it anymore. I enjoyed the weekly. I asked them about the special editions such as eid shankha or valentine day shanka and they said those will be printed as usual. but I miss the regular features. there are so many of the dailies, jajadi had no need to be one.

on the side note, I did not like its too BNP supported write ups. how is daily doing from that point of view?

sunny747 · #15 July 17, 2006, 02:22 PM

It' is just irritating reading jaijaidin these days......even their daily news website is not updated on time..they are a day delay all the time....ya it's true- all what they are doing is buttering BNP......i'm not comfortable with their new format..i guess old format was more user friendly and more apna apna...

Fazal · #16 July 17, 2006, 04:57 PM

jaijaidin er Din jai Jai kortese... Mone hoi je cono din chiro diner jonno chole jabe.

somoy · #17 July 18, 2006, 03:14 AM

Jaijaidin sports mail id.....jjd_sports@yahoo.com or jjd_sports@gmail.com

israr · #18 July 21, 2006, 04:43 PM

Welcome somoy to BC

Sovik · #19 July 21, 2006, 08:30 PM

I would be happy as long as they publish "prem lila"

Shafin · #20 July 22, 2006, 07:22 AM

JJD doinik is rubbish,specially their new spelling system.

Fazal · #21 October 27, 2006, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Jai Jai Din shuts down
Staff Correspondent
Jai Jai Din, the latest Bangla daily that began with a big bang, suspended its publication indefinitely on Friday, putting all its newsmen and employees in utter uncertainty.
Its management in a notice pasted on the wall of the newspaper house claimed that its power generator was out of order and the DESA power supply was not enough to keep the daily up and running.
The management also cut 104 jobs, including that of its chief news editor Amit Habib. Half of the sacked staff were stationed at its Dhaka office and the rest at its bureau offices across the country.
Some quarters find it significant that the shutdown that caused the country’s largest loss of media jobs in a single day coincided with the end of the BNP-led 4-party alliance government’s tenure on Friday.

The timing is interesting. No more free money anymore may be?

Rubu · #22 October 27, 2006, 03:28 PM

Timing could have been co-incidence (i would have called it co-incidence unless it was jaijaidin). but it was due to happen when they turned the weekly to daily. that was a bad move.

they should go back to the way it was.

Another bad move is turning prothom-alo online into subcription. my guess is, it will go back to original soon as well.

Fazal · #23 October 27, 2006, 03:46 PM

Well you don't see a sharee store closing their business just before eid. If they need to close it they do it after eid to milk some last money.

With the current political situation, this is equivalent to pre-eid time for any news media. Ususally even a struggling new media would wait upto next election before shutting down.

Thats why it makes more fishy.

btw the current jai jai din is not your old 'jai jai din' any more where they used play a public shadow police role pointing out any current government's (either BNP or Al or JP) power abuse.

Duck · #24 October 27, 2006, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Fazal
Well you don't see a sharee store closing their business just before eid. If they need to close it they do it after eid to milk some last money.

With the current political situation, this is equivalent to pre-eid time for any news media. Ususally even a struggling new media would wait upto next election before shutting down.

Thats why it makes more fishy.

btw the current jai jai din is not your old 'jai jai din' any more where they used play a public shadow police role pointing out any current government's (either BNP or Al or JP) power abuse.

Fazal vai, you are absolutely spot on!! Reading the paper in Prothom-alo it gave me the same idea. Just the time to switch. Wait and see. And then surface again.

My account of JaiJaiDin:
It bloomed as the anti-Ershad/JP front, atleast to my memory....even at the early years of Ershad. It was the most vocal opponent of the Army-Power. You might know how S. Rehman was miserably treated by HOMOErshad! Then on Jaijaidin kept the tone of Anti-gov flavor, irrespective of Party and Power. The Magazine worked as if they used microscope to find out the faults and follies and provided visionary solutions. To me that was the most modern version of weekly journalism. To our friends, that was the polotical entertainment.

But then he fell for the disgraceful attitude of Aggabahi shangbadik and lost in the middle of a chaotic competitions of aggabohon! Hah! Jaijaidin is dead at that day. Probably he thought he would be able to keep his morale high, even if he walks in the mud. But he has been degraded in the mud!

I am sorry that JJDin is really dead!I know Shafik Rehman will be back in business, in what ever form.

About Prothom-alo: it is really a bad move. Hope they would switch back.

sunny747 · #25 October 27, 2006, 10:35 PM

the quality of jaijaidin became really bad ever since they started publishign the daily news.....totally chamchami of BNP.......it was one of my favourite magazine and i really used to enjoy it. Rehman solely destroyed it.