Letter to the hoot--no correction or apology

IN Opinion | 29/12/2004

Letter to the hoot--no correction or apology

Did no one in Business Standard notice? or is it that someone did and the paper decided it wasn`t worth carrying a correction?

Dear Editor,

Last week, Business Standard carried a Chinese Whispers item describing former urban development minister Jagmohan as former urban welfare minister Jagmohan Dalmia!!! That such a bloomer went into print was bad enough. but worse is to come.

I wrote a letter to the editor pointing out the mistake, and have been checking the column daily since then. The paper did not think it fit to carry a correction or an apology. Sad reflection on standards in journalism, isn`t it?

Let us assume my letter was not received (i am not cribbing because my letter was not carried; i didn`t send it for it to be published). But did no one in Business Standard notice? Or is it that someone did and the paper decided it wasn`t worth carrying a correction? Either way, it doesn`t reflect well on the paper, does it? This is not about Business Standard alone. i find a lot of errors in papers, which are rarely corrected. Such cavalier disregard for readers. And the media thinks it can preach to everyone else.

Megha Iyengar

Mumbai

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