Files under General | Nov
29th
The chaotic coverage by the Indian press of the Mumbai tragedy is amazing.
And The Times of India again leads the lack of accuracy.
The main story on today’s homepage includes conflicting numbers about something that is just a fact.
But fact checking must be too much to ask for a newspaper that many consider to be the best paper in the country (imagine the rest of them!).
As you can see in the picture below, in the same story The Times of India gives you two different figures about the number of rooms of the famous hotel under siege: 400 and 565.
The Taj Mahal hotel’s webpage clearly states the number of rooms: 565.
I read this story two hours ago, and nobody has found the mistake yet.
So if the reporting was bad, then the copy editing is worse.
