Half jackets

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/06/2008

If wrap around ad jackets on daily newspapers were bad, the half jackets are worse. You cannot discard them, because one half of the jacket—the back page--has news on it. And it makes reading the real front page more difficult. The Hindustan Times now has half jackets obscuring the front page practically on a daily basis, and the Times of India has them ever so often.