Typo trouble

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/06/2016

Are editors touchy about being edited? Shekhar Gupta, senior journalist and former editor of The Indian Express, reacted with obvious ire on Twitter when Suhel Seth pointed out an error in one of his tweets. The word in Gupta’s tweet should have been “for” rather than “four” — clearly a typo or a plain mistake. But when Seth, flamboyant ad man cum TV talking head, pointed it out with many a winking emoji, Gupta was not amused. “Thank you English teacher. But you missed the disclaimer/disclosure in my bio: typos are my fingerprints,” he tweeted. To which Seth replied, emojis dancing in full attendance, “In addition to reading your tweets carefully you now expect me to also read your bio?” Gupta shot back that he did, since Seth seemed to have both “the time and the inclination”. Tsk tsk, such testiness! And four, sorry, for what?

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