Archives: Errors

If you have ever worked as a reporter, you would know that no two reporters can use the same language to describe the same set of events. Something like fingerprints, you know. But the Zee News and Times of India correspondents who filed the story on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking the Tamil Nadu Speaker's sanction to prosecute J Jayalalithaa have somehow managed to do the impossible. Here's the Zee News story proudly slugged "Bureau report": New Delhi, June 26: The CBI has sought sanction from the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker to prosecute AIADMK supremo and former...

So here it is, after all -- a correction from the New York Times on its description of the Press Trust of India. Corrections: For the Record Two articles on October 11 about the earthquake that struck India and Pakistan on October 8 misstated the ownership of the Press Trust of India, a main source of initial information on casualties and damage. (The error also occurred in unrelated articles on April 18, and May 26.) The news agency is a nonprofit cooperative owned by India's newspapers, not state-owned or state-run. Good. ...

The New York Times has been diligently carrying stories on the earthquake that are being churned out by its zealous correspondents stationed in India and Pakistan. In its October 11, 2005 edition, NYT had a poignant story: An Earthquake's Pain Unites Two Rivals, for the Moment. All fine, but somewhere in Somini Sengupta's copy was a mention about the Indian news agency Press Trust of India being "state-run." Trade and tourism has inched up in recent years. Transportation links have been extended, including a bus service begun with great fanfare last April,...