With so many news dailies and news channels available to us, the fourth-estate has entered an era of pure-play commercialism. What is appaling is the fact that this commercialism has come at the cost of quality. Each day I come across so many errors and mistakes, ranging from spellings and grammar to data and facts, in newspapers that I sometimes feel miserable about the entire state of affairs of the press. Having been associated with the fourth-estate at some point in life and the respect I have for the profession, the feeling of foreseeing the end of quality journalism is more dreadful.
These following two articles are excerpted from today's (December 10, 2009) Mumbai edition of The Economic Times (there might be more such discrepancies which I may have overlooked in the limited time I browse through the newspaper).
It's said that the way to get noticed is to do quality work - but somehow, my post brings to notice something exactly opposite.
