Why not just tweet the edits?
Since everyone is expressing their views on Facebook and Twitter anyway - and often better ones than the biased views in edits?
DARIUS NAKHOONWALA summarises the edits written on the governor issue in 140 characters.
You don’t say!
Darius Nakhoonwala
For the last ten years or so I have been arguing that editorials should be shorter. At first I thought that 200 words would do. Mint, when it started, did do something like that.
It introduced the Quick Edit which is 165 words long and manages to say everything. But it made up by having a really long winded edit inside.
No one else came close to the Quick Edit, not even the Indian Express, which perhaps has the shortest edits of 350 words. Most others have preferred to stay with much longer edits because they think they have to contextualise, explain and show off.
This may have been needed in the last century. But in the 21st with all its informational devices?
Besides, now that everyone is expressing their views on Facebook and Twitter – and not altogether stupid views, I must say, and often better than the biased views in edits -- I am trying an experiment here.
I am going to summarise the edits written by the major newspapers on the governor issue in 140 characters.
Tell The Hoot what you think.
The Indian Express: #IE Any move to replace governors appointed by political rivals, for no reason would be an undermining of the constitutional office. (Read)
The Hindu: #TH SC said no to the removal of Governors by new govts. It would be undemocratic of Modi govt to replace Congress favourites with its own. (Read)
Hindustan Times: #HT The Centre has not made a strong case for dismissing governors. Bad precedents shouldn’t undermine the integrity of a constitutional office. (Read)
The Telegraph: #T’graf Political appointees to high office are expected to resign. Its dignity should urge them to resign when a new government comes in.
The Times of India: #Times of India The Modi government does not have adequate numbers in Rajya Sabha. Why fritter away precious political capital when it needs to conserve it? (Read)
The Economic Times: #ET Incumbent governors should go gracefully on their own. Equally, it would be graceful for the government to let governors whose term is about to expire within the year be. (Read)
#Mint Amongst all constitutional offices, the Governor’s is the most political one. These two aspects should not be confused with each other. (Read)
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