Posted: 2006-03-24 11:55:00
If we are going to observe the standard rules proposed by Mortimer to rate reports, from 1 to 5 stars, maybe should be included besides the star the meaning of every rate for everybody to understand. For instance:
* Weak
** Average
*** Good
**** Very good
***** Perfect!
According with this criterion, I understand that only reports with the 9 paragraphs well written respecting the headings, 9 pictures accordingly, plus useful and pleasant text would deserve 5 points.
But then, according to that code, at least ten out of the twenty reports in the top list should have to be downgraded and be sent, without piety, to the ostracism.
For instance:
Davidx Peruvian report Andahuaylillas "three very different places" does not comply with that criterion because he only filled (masterly, that is right) six paragraphs and not nine three.
Two opposite cases:
1- in the excellent report by gloriajames about Chengdu, China’s Hidden Paradise, which won the Report of the Month last January, mortimer only gave 3 points, while the rest of 20 members, without exception, granted 5 points with high eulogies and laurels.
2- On gloriajames Agra, The Taj Mahal love story report, member Ravindrakumarsi, native from India and probably of Hindu religion, gave only 4 points for a perfect report because of the sinister story behind the Indian constructors of that monument, being all killed by Shah Jahan and the Mughal invaders, as Ravi points out. (Thanks for that information, Ravi, I did not know that and understand your feelings). Nonetheless that report deserves 5 points.
One more example of improper rating:
I present in Globo a report about Granada, called “Granada the Moorish”, for instance, and in the first paragraph I explain that I took the train and left Barcelona to Granada but stopped in Tarragona for swimming, then in the second paragraph I relate how I arrived to Valencia and ate paella. The third paragraph is devoted to a friend that I met in Alicante and drank sangria together. The forth I stopped in Murcia to sleep siesta because I was tired, in the fifth, yes, I describe the Alhambra of Granada, and then in the following paragraphs I narrate my journey back to Barcelona stopping in Guadalajara and Teruel and write some empty nonsense about the donkeys and the goats that I saw on the road.
Well, perhaps that would suit for a travel tale, but not for a report in Globo, and should be rated with 3 points, being very generous.
Nevertheless, in that page of the 20 first reports, shockingly somebody has a lot of inappropriate and at the same time overrated reports like this. In my opinion, that is a pity for people who look in Globo for a determinate place, with useful info about restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, museums, etc., and only find stories of a personal nature, and probably with embroidered imagined “adventures”.
Just my 2 rupees
[ This Message was edited by: isaacmolina on 2006-03-27 00:14 ] ---
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