tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82095537276969481862024-03-14T11:31:35.310+05:30Press BloopersThis blog attempts to browse through newspapers, mostly Indian newspapers and news websites and look into the mistakes carried by them. It is not my intention to defame any person or organisation, but is a genuine attempt to show 'how not to write'. Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875490049215607454noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8209553727696948186.post-19297233589050471822014-05-13T09:14:00.001+05:302014-05-13T09:16:49.200+05:30Thought Mahesh Bhupathi Was A Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: orange;">Looks like only a heart attack can be more 'massive' than this one... </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Read about the recent management changes in The Hindu, but never thought it would degrade the reports to this standard. What a pathetic piece? Never expected something like this from Hindu. </span></div>
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Here goes... this is about the modernisation in the Indian Navy... What to write when the picture is worth a thousand words? <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/indian-navy-poised-for-major-upgrade-dk-joshi/article5385030.ece" target="_blank">Here</a> is the original link in case you want a legible copy. If you have trouble reading the comments, I am posting them below.<br />
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<li> If INS Viraat is set to be decommissioned in 2017, how do they plan to get three operational carriers the same year? As per reports, INS Vishal is expected to enter service only by 2025. Recently heard the Viraat's life has been extended 'beyond 2020'. </li>
<li>You either call it an SSBN (Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear) or Nuclear Attack Submarine. Definitely not SSBN Submarine because 'Ship Submersible' is the technical term for a Submarine.</li>
<li>'Second phase' to be commissioned? I thought the second phase has begun and the entire carrier would be commissioned in 2017.</li>
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<li>Mazdock? Isn't it officially called the Mazagon Docks?</li>
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<span style="color: orange;">After a long time... Couldn't help sharing this. This is an agency copy from Associated Press, published by Times of India online on 7th March, 2013. This is about three women found about 10 years after they went missing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">This is a Times of India Online classic. Please forward this to those who, when cornered, quote the saying <i>journalism is literature in a hurry</i> to escape public wrath (Yes, that is what a guy responded when someone criticised a TOI story). </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">After some time... Times of India Online again... Am I missing something? Is this a new trend in grammar?</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Sorry for this Times bashing again, but can't help it. Here is another fresh one from Times of India Mumbai edition..</span></div>
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See how they have carelessly put one paragraph in between the story. I remember a cartoon on our old Kerala University Journalism department's wall, depicting an old newspaper office saying... "<b>Who reads the second para anyway?</b>" I think TOI is taking it far too seriously.<br />
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The headline says Swine Flu <b>Far From Lethal</b>, which means it is <b>Not Lethal</b>, or there is still some way to go before it can be called lethal. Published on 26 June, 2012.<br />
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See the repeated paragraphs. And the same comment has been attributed to two people (see the green lines). Published on 27 April, 2012.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Here is another one from <b><i>The Times of India</i></b> online. TOI guys are experts in doing this it seems. Acting as the true representatives of the fourth estate, they withhold names of victims and culprits in all cases, but leave clues in the story that does not require a detective's senses to sniff out. Even I am caught between the ethics of putting this 'revealing' goof-up up for the public, but this is a classic case of it... </span></div>
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Please see the red underlined words. The paper, published on 15th of March, 2012, clearly says that the names are withheld (to protect identities). But they have mentioned that the person is the Principal of <span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">St Elias High School in Khar (west). They further go on to suggest that the principal is a lady. </span><br />
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<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">TOI rocks...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Here is the gem of a headline from <b><i>The Times of India</i></b> online. The headline says it all. I fail to understand what this "Maid to Order" thing is on this
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phrases ready, waiting for something to happen with a maid.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">So here goes the first blooper from <i><b>Mumbai Mirror</b></i>. The story was about the <a href="http://www.flipkart.com/books/0545087120?_l=HiqxyqBebY_wW5BsN4e2sg--&_r=WKfZEkcoCPZzMy_3_WS17w--&ref=880f9327-84e3-4658-ad90-23b4968a81af?affid=sujithgopi">US President</a>'s '<a href="http://www.flipkart.com/books/0786888199?_l=gnZyJuTF7MlDMancsQeHcw--&_r=%20puu8Ae6yoes5Tx3Wm9MOQ--&ref=bd3e4542-e41d-4263-9c2a-bd73fd6b25ba?affid=sujithgopi">Doomsday Plane</a>'. Though the story was taken from the agencies, I believe Mumbai Mirror has a sub editor at the desk. </span><br />
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Washington: It costs an astronomical $200 million, can stay in the air for days without refuelling, and is <b>build</b> to protect the US President, <b>his</b> Secretary of Defence (<b><i style="color: yellow;">have you heard of a President's Secretary of Defence? Well, I haven't</i></b>), <a href="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0dnA8iI24F205/75x75.jpg" target="_blank">Joint Chiefs of Staff</a> and other key personnel.<br />
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Able to launch within minutes, the ‘doomsday plane’ offers protection from the <b>ultimate worst-case scenarios</b> (<i style="color: yellow;"><b>it is like saying 'the worstest'</b></i>), including nuclear attacks and <b>meteor strikes from outer space</b> (<i style="color: yellow;"><b>wow...I am yet to hear of a meteor strike from the stratosphere</b></i>).<br />
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People travelling on board can communicate with anyone on the ground and <b>even submarines can be reached underwater when a five-mile long cable is extended from the back of the plane</b> (<i style="color: yellow;"><b>funny isn't it? A submarine being towed by an aircraft. And why do you need a cable to communicate with a submarine?</b></i>).<br />
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Mobilised hours after the 9/11 terror strikes, the world’s most impressive <b>plane runs on 1,65,000 pounds of state of the art electronics</b> (<i style="color: yellow;"><b>I thought planes run on Aviation Turbine Fuel</b></i>) and is protected by an electromagnetic pulse shield.<br />
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Onboard equipment is so powerful a <b>specially upgraded air conditioning system</b> (<i style="color: yellow;"><b>upgraded from what to what?</b></i>) is needed to <b>keep it cool</b> (<i style="color: yellow;"><b>otherwise it will lose its cool</b></i>) - and a specially trained team of tech-whizzes stay on board to man the devices.</div>
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