Stuff that makes headlines!
Stuff that makes headlines! Before I start my weekly monologue, let me clarify. I have worked on the newsdesk of newspapers and a news agency for more than two decades and have first-hand experience of how taxing it can be physically and mentally, not to mention emotionally. People know reporters because they read their names, see them, hear them. However, those on the news desk who edit the copy, make pages, and bring out the edition, stay unseen. But once in a rare blue moon, it is the sub-editors, senior sub-editors, chief sub-editors even the deputy news editors or news editors, on the desk who slip up and as a result, bring upon the wrath of their superiors on themselves. Yet for the readers that can be a ‘What the …’ or ‘Really’ moment? And believe me, even though the newspaper lives only for those 24 hours, the error lives forever. Here are some bloopers for you to enjoy, smile at and maybe remember too. I have stuck to the mistakes found in Indian newspapers and sen...