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Friday, November 14, 2008 4:14 PM

Heads Above (and Below) The Rest-2

An occasional look at some great and not-so-great headlines, all trying to be clever and some pulling it off better than the others. Heads Above The Rest 1. Mail Today's 14 November front page headline " Billionaire Slide Show " is a clever...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:52 AM

Kudos to The Economic Times

A Mint colleague forwarded a note from Rahul Joshi to the editorial staff of The Economic Times . I don't know Mr Joshi but have little reason to believe it isn't from him because it is fundamentally the right message for any editor to constantly...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 6:56 PM

The billionaire love handle

Responding in part to the blog post on why Indian newspapers are in love with the word Foray ( see Why This Shouldn't be Called a Foray Into Blogging ), Mint reader Harish Jagtiani asked me why Indian journalists seem to love throwing someone's...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:24 AM

Headllines Above (and Below) The Rest

A weekly look at the good, bad and ugly when it comes to headlines. Heads Above 1. From The Economist , the home to some of the most cutting edge headline writing. A story about former US Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards admitting to an...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:39 AM

Peanuts for IIM, caviar for cricket?

A news article in The Times of India on 24 August about salary packages proposed for new, paid selectors who will pick cricket teams for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (Read this BCCI story here ) made me wonder about how skewed our national...
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