What a goof up

IN Media Watch Briefs | 06/09/2008

The Hindustan Times, which paid extensive tribute to its proprietor K K Birla the day after he died, goofed up on the caption for a front page pix. It said it was a picture of Birla and his late wife. The next day it corrected that with another pix of him and his wife, but did not explain who the young woman in the first photograph was. We wonder if any heads rolled in the newsroom on August 31.

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