Tranparency, anyone?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/02/2008

 Mint, the financial daily, has set itself  up as a model of transparency. On its first anniversary it told us how it had done so far in terms of circulation, advertising, and the accuracy of its reporting. It present detailed pie charts of mistakes made by the paper, and by whom. That surely is a first. It stopped short of declaring losses incurred in its first year. In contrast, its older rival the Economic Times has no hang ups about transparency. On Feb 2 it carried a full page feature on the Oneness Movement but forgot to mention that proprietor Indu Jain runs a Oneness Centre. Ah well, it takes both kinds to keep the Hoot in business!