http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:51:35 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2007/01/01/072917.php#comment-41909 Ah,those infamous pubic places. I too was a reporter and copy editor at the same time. It worked fairly well but then there grew a distance between me and the other reporters as they all had something shared to dislike me with. I dropped the copy editing bit - which I had only taken on because the editor was incompetently "too busy" - and all was well again. Well, except for the greater number of errors that slipped through. This was a weekly with a double-shoestring staff. Would it be gauche to point out the multiple typo / spelling errors in the article? Yes? OK, forget it then. Enjoyed the article on newspapering through the eyes of "sub-editors." 41909@desicritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:51:35 EST http://desicritics.org/2007/01/01/072917.php#comment-41906 GVK: they remain truly unsung and under appreciated a friend who was working the graveyard shift at the star killed a major developing story from the wires (reuter or afp - i forget) through his diligence...getting suspicious of a report he asked for a direct quote from the protagonist in the reported story... that set off alarm bells going...the star did not publish the news report...some papers that did had to retract:) 41906@desicritics.org Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:34:32 EST http://desicritics.org/2007/01/01/072917.php#comment-41815 Today, incompetency by editors has become a norm in India. Most of these editors do not have brains to question the establishment or politically correct ideologies. Hence, they do a great disservice to the nation. Even today, most newspapers in Indian carry the news that 70% of Indian women face domestic violence (a well planted lie proven beyond doubt). How many of the editors in the newspapers got fired for propagating such a false data all over the country? 41815@desicritics.org Mon, 1 Jan 2007 10:37:57 EST