How bad writing (and no editing) can bias readers

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Muthuswamy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:43:09 GMT

Nalin Sharma, father of Abhishek Sharma is on the run for a housing money fraud scam and likey to be arrested soon - July 2009. His son Abhishek Sharma is in jail overseas for drug and rape charges.

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Muthuswamy — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:57:49 GMT

Abhishek Sharma is the notorious son of Nalin Sharma, VP of the builders association of Vashi, India. Abhishek Sharma has served jail time overseas for drug, porn and rape charges. For money , he joined hands with the terrorist.

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Muthuswamy — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:57:39 GMT

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Muthuswamy — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:57:35 GMT

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Veeresh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:17:20 GMT

And despite all this, sometimes, not only do we slip out but some of those checking us try to purloin our laptops. That's a true fact, and happened at the same IGIA / DIAL, and no, it wasn't a security person who tried to steal it, this was an airline staffer.

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SK Giri — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:25:38 GMT

Raju - Despite the strong concerns from the discerning minds, "bad writing ( and no editing)" continues to rule the roost. Here is another Press Trust of India piece just extracted from ndtvprofit website. The errors - both grammatical and factual - appear to be too shocking to be ignored. It seems that PTI is really in a competition with itself to take journalistic standards to its pit as quickly as possible and hold the record for itself for a long time to come. [[Interest rates to ease after March next year: PNB Press Trust of India Friday, September 05, 2008 (New Delhi) Punjab National Bank (PNB), the country's second largest public sector lender, on Friday said that interest rates will start coming down by next year even though the Reserve Bank of India indicated that it will continue its hawkish stance. "Interest rates seem stable for some time now. We expect the interest rates will start coming down after March," PNB Chairman and Managing Director K C Chakrabarty said on the sidelines of a function. The banking regulator said in its Currency and Finance report for 2006-08 that "it is critical at the prevailing juncture to demonstrate on a continuing basis a determination to act decisively, effectively and swiftly to curb any signs of adverse developments in regard to inflation expectations." Inflation which is "reining" (Comment from SK : must be "reigning") over 12 per cent is still way above the RBI's projection of 7 per cent by the end of current fiscal. The Reserve Bank has in phases raised the cash reserve ratio and "reserve" (Comments from SK : there is nothing like reserve repo - must be "reverse repo") repo rate to 9 per cent to tame rising inflation. It last hiked the repo rate by 50 basis points and cash reserve rate by 25 basis points in its monetary policy review on July 29. Following the subsequent hike of key rates, all commercial banks including State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda increased their benchmark lending rates. The prime lending rate of most public sector banks was increased to 14 per cent.]] Now if we read it carefully - 1. Para 4 says : "Inflation which is "reining" over 12 per cent....." --- should it not be "reigning" ? 2. Para 5 says : "The Reserve Bank has in phases raised the cash reserve ratio and "reserve" repo rate to 9 per cent ..." --- there is nothing like "reserve" repo - must be "reverse repo". 3. Thirdly, when is the reverse repo hiked to 9%? It is well known that Repo Rate is raised to 9% leaving Reverse Repo Rate unchanged at 6% in the last review. How long the readers will continue to be fed with such garbage? Is it really the lower pay attracts only the most inferiors in the trade? Save PTI from being Poor Talent Inc. Save media from such creeping virus.

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Abinav — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:44:18 GMT

I had seen this show on Indian media in NDTV in which the editors of the BIG 4 of Indian news media participated. I was appalled at the way they were shamelessly bragging about how bad everyone was at news - and how innovative each one was at being commercial. The show was attended by the then Prez, Dr. Abul Kalam Azad. When the show was thrown open to the audience, our prez raised his hand to ask a question and he asked this: "And I thought you all wanted to give news to the nation. Do you all not do this anymore?" All fell silent as I could hear my thoughts coming out of the Prez's mouth! Can the newspaper not be sued? Is it not criminal - defaming a person? Anyway. @Subhra - 'slips in the wee hours' was brilliant! [:)]

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Raju Narisetti — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:58:29 GMT

Subhra--If I am reading you correctly, you are lamenting the low pay for good editors and copy writers. I must confess that in circa 2008 in Indian journalism if there are "good" copy editors who are underpaid, I would love to know who they are. It isn't money any more--at least in most Indian newsrooms constantly looking for copy editors. It is how we treat them--as "production" people punching their clock until they find an escape route to reporting--or as people who can make or break a newspaper, with power to stop bad writing from ending up in front of readers. The problem today is that journalism schools have devalued this great skill/job thanks to newsrooms that didn't care about editing and we are all paying the price. I would take a good copy editor over a good reporter--any day. Raju

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Subhra Priyadarshini — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:26:49 GMT

In my close to a decade long prized association with the Press Trust of India I have endured far worse editing and 'slips in the wee hours'. These are standarad archaic expressions the agency has not grown out of. In fact, the entire industry suffers from the lack of good editors and copy writers. Did I hear someone lamenting in a brilliant post recently about paying peanuts?

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Raju Narisetti — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:38:50 GMT

Camy--what happened to innocent until proven guilty? Would any normal person subject himself to India's media circus by following your suggestion of alerting media about him and his family going home? If India wanted to keep him, all they had to do was ask for him to deposit his passport with the police. And Christian "fundamentalists" are suddenly criminal?

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Camy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:15:09 GMT

The issue is not about the writing here. We are here to talk about an American who left India, in the mist of investigation. If he had nothing to hide, then he should have at least informed the local police officer before leaving to US or at least media person. Well he runs a Christian Fellow Ministry... which is a Christian cult from Arizona. I happen to visit this website, I could immediately feel that its run by Christian fundamentalists. Knowing the fact that there is an unusual raise in Christian converts in india, it only raises more questions on haywood. What Indians and victim need to know is why an American left india from whose computer an e-mail was sent prior to the blast? If he had nothing to hide, he should have informed someone that would shown some respect for ATS and the Victims.

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Raju Narisetti — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:38:48 GMT

Amit--goes to show everyone needs an editor (perhaps the same point my blog was trying to make about more serious outcomes from no editing.) Raju

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amit varma — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:51:45 GMT

"I don't know about government Look Out notices but, we surely need to issue a warrant for biased writing and poor editing." Raju, in a sentence that slams bad editing, how on earth could you put a comma after 'but'? Apart from that, it's a fine post and a fine blog. It's good to see you blogging!