Pakistan, A Nation of Cosmetics
From Deccan Chronicle, first page (October 26, 2007):
The so-called rouge nations, Iran, North Korea and Libya, described by US President George W. Bush as the “Axis of Evil,†got their nuclear technology from Pakistan, the authors added. Describing Pakistan as a rouge nation at the epicentre of world destabilisation, the book claims that Pakistan was still busy selling its nuclear secrets in the world market.
They meant rogue of course. Doesn’t the paper have proofreaders to prevent exactly this sort of this from happening? Right on the first page. And twice, that too.
Perhaps they should just stick to importing articles from other newspapers rather than attempting to write them with their own staff.
Category: Misc
He is your friend!!
October 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Twice?! This is why spell checkers don’t help
Eye wars hat de bitch plying wed football.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
spell check wouldn’t help because the spelling is right, it’s just not the right word. ooh, we need automated word generators too.
This is an article from the DC eh? See, I told you the Hindu was better.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Maybe pakistan uses nuclear technology in their cosmetics ?
October 26th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Or vice versa.. err.. Pakistan uses cosmetics in their nuclear bombs
October 26th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
a proofreader is a person who reads the article to check for errors, its not a spell checker.
good show by DC, they’ll be thoroughly embarrassed.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Anne, The Hindu is better in putting me to sleep. I have found errors in The Hindu also. And whatever is an ‘automated word generator’?
Arun M, perhaps. Rouge is known to be very destructive.
As Suren said, proofreaders are supposed to check for all errors. Why did you people drag spellcheckers into this?
October 26th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Arun: You win this comment thread.
Suren: I know. I meant that the editors only pass it through the spell check.
The Hindu kicks ass. Marc should remember these dummies.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Thanks for the unnecessary super high resolution image, George.
(For people who didn’t get it, check the ‘Inside’ section in the page.)
October 26th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Come on, Marc! The Hindu doesn’t botch up like this one.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
the hindu makes only semantic errors, they have a small section inside the paper where they declare and correct them.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Did you people even visit the link George posted? That was the mother of all botch ups.
Suren, stop using words like semantic. Bloody Anna Univ students.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
hahaha….
October 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Whoops, too high res. Sorry
Newspapers here make way too many mistakes. Sometimes The Hindu just leaves out the endings of whole stories. It’s funny. The DC makes funnier mistakes.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I’ve noticed them leaving out a few words here and there. I guess it’s hard when you do the same thing every day but it still seems like shoddiness.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:23 am
just saw the link, check out the inlay on right side, “This is a dummy”. i don’t think that particular paper went into publication. i suppose it was just to see the layout.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Dude, George photographed it from his copy of the paper! It’s not a fake!
October 28th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Suren, that was the printed version. I photographed it. I’m sure I didn’t change the image so the camera model should be in the EXIF data.
The Hindu is dead, really. It is no longer relevant.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Finally he admits it.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:27 am
Consider this, too http://www.samsonblinded.org/news/muslim-world/pakistan