The rules of grammar can be broken in journalism, if it makes the headlines/straps more interesting. I have found that at times pun or play on Siamese twins makes arresting headlines. For the uninitiated Siamese twins are idioms that are inseparable like hammer and tongs, thick and thin, hide and seek, etc. One of my [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Sub-editing errors
Posted in Career listings, tagged copy-pasting, elephant, Gates on N-deal, sub-editor on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mistakes, Mistakes…. A sub-editor’s life is all about getting it right 99 times and getting yelled for the one time she (he) didn’t get it right. The whole problem I feel is lack of time. I remember copy-pasting one entire chunk only to see the next day morning that the small pointer, which was supposed [...]
The same news – everywhere (Thanks to our agencies)
Posted in Career listings on April 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Most of the sub-editors, working on the national page, would have by now got used to seeing the same PTI\Rueters\AP copy in every other newspaper – IE, the Hindu & DC, they open. But the same picture in every newspaper is a little too much. Even the readers by now would have caught on to [...]
TPM – The Pentecostal Mission
Posted in A voice of sanity in the Christian world, tagged Adam, Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, Bible, BMWs, chief pastors, Christ, Eve, Hallelluiah, lilies of the valley, Paul, Pentecostal churches, Praise the Lord, The Pentecostal Mission, TPM, Trappisian monks on April 2, 2008 | 969 Comments »
*Comments have been re-opened but will be moderated Have you guys heard of The Pentecostal Mission (TPM)? I’m sure you must have heard some half-baked guys singing loudly, off-tune and with reverberations of “Hallelluiah” and “Praise the Lord” every five minutes late into the night in your neighbourhood. Well these guys are part of the [...]
