The Lost Art Of The Newspaper
I keep lamenting about the lost art of writing and publishing a newspaper. I give all credit to polishing my English only because I was and still am a voracious reader of the Editorial section of the Hindu. In the bygone days when there were no computers around, I guess news editors would go through each line, read each and every element, word by word and make corrections accordingly. As a direct consequence there would be no spelling errors or chance of any kind of mistake cropping up. But in the days of Technology and Computers where there are tools available to check all kinds of mistakes, irony is that errors have gone up. I have written directly to the newspapers with the fond hope that they would correct their mistakes and future editions would be error free. So This blog is appealing to the Editor of the Economic Times and the Times of India to directly to fall in line and give due importance to make corrections/Deletions/Additions before the edition goes for the final print....