Hindustan Times: Reporting gone awry
Published by Abhishek June 3rd, 2007 in Newspapers in India, Online News WebsitesHindustan Times reports about Google’s digitisation efforts in Mysore. However, the reporter has not even bothered to cross check the details. Apart from the obvious errors, the write up suffers from grammatical bloopers. Such is the state of English newspapers in India! (via Atanu Dey)
Written either in Sanskrit or Kannada, these resources of knowledge would be patented and printed after the digitisation work is over, Prasad said. (Patented?)
Google India chief (Eric Schmidt) had already interacted with us and is ready to provide us expertise, software and even manpower,” Prasad said, adding that they have also received some financial assistance from the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the digitisation work. (India Chief?)
Asked why Google is interested to do the job for free, the vice chancellor said the company would get free link for these materials once the necessary patent right is done.
It is the first university of Karnataka and currently 122 colleges are affiliated to it with a total strength of nearly 55,000 students, in graduation, post-graduation and research levels. (WTF?)
However, the vice chancellor did not spell out the exact timeframe of the project. “It’s a tough job and we could not spell an exact timing of its completion.” (WTF again!)
Elaborating on its utility, Prasad said they would allow students, scholars and historians from all over the country to access the knowledge base. (Makes any sense to you?)
I am sure they must have hired the out of work CNN-IBN sub-editors for sure. This is CNN-IBN’s school of journalism! Those people shine through in their incompetency and feel proud about it.
Hindustan Times is a distant second and given the kind of write ups they publish, they would surely surpass IBN some day.
Google India chief (Eric Schmidt)