>>Sisyphean task: The Union Budget day’s issue (July 11, 2014, some editions) was marred by some avoidable repetitions despite some pithy columns and internal mechanisms initiated by the Editor.
1. A front page report on Sanjay Kishan Kaul’s appointment as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and an inside page report (Headline: “ >[Madras] HC gets new Chief Justice ”) were identical except for a single line of additional information on the warrant of appointment being expected in a day or two.
2. Two panels under the caption — “ ! >Did You Know ” — on two different “Budget–2014: The Modi Era” pages repeated the same information that Manmohan Singh was the architect of service tax, introduced in 1994-95.
>>The Corrections and Clarifications column on March 25, 2014 said that the column had lost count on the number of times it had to issue a correction in regard to “official language versus national language.” Now, a sentence in “ >Hindi is not an ‘official’ language in Kerala Assembly ” (July 9, 2014, some Kerala editions) reads: “… the reply to it by Home and Vigilance Minister Ramesh Chennithala in the national language was objected to …” The reference is to Hindi. A vexed reader one again points out that Hindi is an official language — not national language. The reader is right.
