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.
4 comments:
You really have an eye for the finer details!!
that was indeed fast man...
what others detected later in the day u did it in the morning itself...indeed great....bahut detail me padta hai man...
keep it up...
good going...
but then u know na how much is to be done in a daily newspaper...so i guess we really can ignore these seeing the amount of hard work which is put in day after day...what say?
@ Aparna - :)
@ Yogesh - I agree with you that journalists are under constant pressure of ensuring wider coverage of news but should we get that news at the cost of incorrect news? The pics I've uploaded are just an example of inconsistent spellings, there are many instances of factual errors too.
nice observation... i personally feel there is no problem if there is a mistake in the spelling of a proper noun but only if it occurs very rarely... and yes if there are factual or grammatical errors, then it should be noticed for sure.. :)
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