Posts Tagged ‘the hindu’

Retraction

An error was inadvertently committed in the report by our Special Correspondent published in the front page of The Hindu under the headline “Two editors of TV 5 arrested in Hyderabad.” The report wrongly stated that TV9 was among the three channels booked by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the telecast of [...]

Fuzzy numbers etc.

The fourth paragraph in a report “Stampede near Himachal temple claims 146 lives” (August 4, 2008, page 1) was “More than 5000 devotees were on their way to the temple, situated at a height of about 4000 metres, at the time of the incident.” It should have been 4000 feet. The second paragraph of a [...]

Prescription for disaster

The fourth paragraph in a report “Viagra potentially to help depressed women as well” (“Newscape” page, July 23, 2008) was “The women were told to take a pill one to two hours for eight weeks …”, leading to queries. It was an editing error. The sentence should have been “The women were told to take [...]