Copy-Paste work in Economic Times

Times of India and Economic Times are the worst of the mainstream media when it comes to quality in writing. It seems the writers/columnists there fill up some junk by Googling or copy-pasting from other media websites, rehash them and finally deliver it before the DEADLINES. As in every copy-paste work the errors, mostly contextual, creep in and go unnoticed. But what about the editors or editor assistants who has to fool-proof the articles? I guess even they sign/authorise such articles under deadline pressure. Here is one such copy-paste work I found in Economic Times’ website. The article compares the cash reserves of the Top 4 IT companies of India. The data presented here is in Rupees and the Dollar data crept in HCL Technologies.

This article can be found at the link http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/et-slideshows/cash-on-books/quickiearticleshow/15141259.cms

 

Dumbos@work

This is the medium-size advertisement appeared in Eenadu for Suvarnabhoomi Developers. Check out the word CARRIER in the advertisement. It should be CAREER. This is the problem when you appoint dumbos in work. Clearly, this is a case of ignorance and negligence. The writers must have depend on the spell-checker of Office Suites. The word CARRIER has no spelling-mistake therefore the word processors did not catch the mistake. But what about the contextual meaning?

Social Service is a not a fashion, dude!

You come across people who campaigns for SAVE THE TIGER.
People who ‘teaches’ you Traffic Rules.
People who asks you to follow ‘Earth Hour’.
People who campaigns for ‘Green Peace’
People who volunteers to teach the children in Slums.

What I observe among this section of people is…they are not really serious about the Social Service. It is kinda ‘cool’ thing for them. It makes them ‘cool’ among their peers.

Practically speaking, why do we people in India should follow Earth Hour? Our country-side still lingers in darkness for more than 12 hours a day.
And why should you go out and teach the kids in slums? If you are really serious about the education for poor, take steps to revive the Government Schools. And it is also so simple task. Just pick 200 to 300 employees and ask them adopt a government school and make them join their kids in Government Schools. And you demand the proper teaching and attendance from the teachers. This way, the standards in Government Schools will go up. The system of Kendriya Vidyalayas are already a proven example of this. There the kids comes from families with good background of Education and parents stress for good education and more often interact with the teachers.

Ironically, the so called activists enroll their kids in good Private Schools and the preaches about the Social Service.
How can there be Social Service without a Sacrifice?

A stupid column by Chetan Bhagat

When you are a columnist on contract with a leading newspaper and you don't' have an idea of what to write simply run a poll on Facebook and write an analysis on the result of it. Simple!!! Isn't it? May be that sounds simple but that is a stupid way of filling the columns in the newspapers.

Chetan Bhagat, famous writer and also a columnist in Times of India ran poll in Facebook asking Netizens to vote for their choice of next PM. His options are Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi and None of the above. And he filled up the column analysing the two Personalities along with the poll results. Surely he is inclined towards Narendra Modi, going by his tweets and his past columns and he repeated the same in the latest column also. While it is no wrong on being bias towards your choice of leaders, it is idiotic to take up the poll results on Facebook as precedence. Let us hope, the inspirational writer comes up with Columns he is best at and which are close to his motto - 'Entertain and Change'.