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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Sachin Phadte wrote:
The body of the article and the headlines are so much out of sync that I really had to laugh. Since Fredrick is in journalism, can he please comment if this is standard operating procedure, at least in case of TOI?
Sachin Phadte.
Sachin, As you might know, in these parts of the globe, the title of a news-report is usually given by the sub-editor (not the reporter/feature-writer who wrote the report).
That's because we have a rather water-tight division (following the British practise) of those who write the news as against those who edit and/or lay-out the news on the page.
To find a news report which says something which is not even mentioned in the 'copy' (body of the report) is rare and unusual. It would only happen in case of a glaring blunder.
Mistakes do happen, of course, in journalism. All of us could write a thick book on our own mistakes ;-) Someone called journalism "literature in a hurry". It's often a big hurry indeed! Doctors bury their mistakes, they say... and journalists proudly display them on the front page.
But given the manner in which subject-lines and sender's identities have come to be used as a means of taking pot-shots at PWDL (people we don't like) in some Goa-related networks, I wouldn't be too surprised if the unrelated subjectline had nothing whatsoever to do with the paper that put out the story.
It generally makes sense to mention the source of reports we forward, as it is then possible to verify such doubts. Of course, at times, I regret violating this rule myself! FN
PS: Since Goanetters treat me as the unofficial spokesperson for all journalists in Goa, may I add here that I don't agree with most of my colleagues' views ... and (more importantly) vice versa.
