When we pay $6 for a newspaper (hint: the Sunday New York Times), we fancy that we’re entitled to some minimum quality.
Imagine first our delight when we opened the Sunday New York Times (July 4, 2010, P.10 of the Arts & Leisure section) to find an article on two recent Bollywood films Raajneeti and Raavan and then deep anger when we found that the c*nts at the Times can’t distinguish between the two Indian film stars Vikram and Abhishek Bachchan.
A photograph accompanying an article on two recent Bollywood films Raajneeti and Raavan had the wrong caption – identifying Vikram as Abhishek Bachchan.
Folks, that is an egregious blunder.
Vikram is not Abhishek Bachchan
(Photo: NYT Online Edition)
Besides the factual error, there’s the grave injustice of putting the name of a hopelessly incompetent star (Abhishek Bachchan) beneath the photograph of one of India’s few talented actors (Vikram).
Abhishek Bachchan, as every Indian knows by now, can’t act to save his life and is found wanting even by Bollywood’s lowly standards.
At first, we thought NYT’s mistake was only in the print edition but to our dismay the online edition too featured the same error.
As of July 5 evening 8PM ET, the dickheads at the NYT had yet to correct the mistake.
By the way, the offending NYT article is titled Mythic Past, Resonating in the Present.
Update @10:40PM ET July 6, 2010
After our piece was published yesterday, the c*ck-suckers at our favorite newspaper NYT have now fixed the error.
Vikram is now Vikram, not that worthless star ahem that Bollywood Zero Abhishek Bachchan.
The c*nts at our favorite newspaper NYT now have this to say:
A picture caption in an earlier version of this article misidentified the actor who plays the title character in “Raavan.” The actor is Vikram, not Abhishek Bachchan, who only plays Raavan in the Hindi version of the film. Vikram plays Raavan in the Tamil version.
Should SI take credit for raising this issue and getting the error fixed? 😉
God, its occasional errors of judgment aside we love the NYT.
Really. Love the paper.
Having finished the glass of White Russian, we’ve now poured ourselves a glass of our usual Gilbey’s Gin and Seltzer Water with Athenos Tomato & Basil Feta Cheese and Akki Roti on the side.
Oh yeah, Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen is playing in the background on iTunes.
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Are those at NYT so dumb?
BTW $6 for a newspaper?
Isn’t that a bit costly?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Sheer carelessness. Wonder, who is responsible for the error? Was it Somini Sengupta (the writer of the article) or the copy editor?
2. Yes, the Sunday New York Times costs $6 at the newsstand.
Sure, it is expensive and beyond the reach of a lot of people.
Unfortunately, the NYT, like most newspapers in the U.S., is caught in a downward spiral as readers refuse to pay for content.
With fewer and fewer readers, newspapers are compelled to raise the prices forcing more readers to stop buying them. We see catastrophe written all over.
In the coming decades, readers will pay a heavy price as the quality newspapers die and there are no watchdogs left to monitor our corrupt corporations and crooked politicians.
We strongly recommend that our U.S. readers subscribe to a newspaper. But given that most of our readers are cheap desi chutiyas, we doubt they’ll listen.
offtopic:
When I first login into your site,using email and password(password I created my own.only a fool would give the mail account password ain’t it!).
Then I got a message on my mail account that searchindia password and login is this and this!!
After that I do login using the hyperlink below,ain’t it?
Now here comes the problematic part:
1.In the from column,it is displayed as “No name found”.When I click,it is either displayed as “unknown sender” and the content details are not displayed or displayed as From “WordPress( searchindia@indiablogs.com) and the mail is notified as spam.
2.We are getting warned here in India about spam mails!!
Questions:
Please answer these below questions in a pretty simple way.I am an Indian “schmuck”,so you have to tolerate these equally stupid questions!!
Question 1:
I do not quite know whether a spam is bad for my PC or not.I read about spam in Wiki,but could not understand even a single line!!What exactly is a spam?
Question 2:
You often say that our comments pass through a spam hole.Why does it happen?
Question 3:
I recently added AVG anti virus to my PC.It shows that your site is virus-free(a tick mark confirms this).Is there any relation between spams and virus-spreading??
Cheers,
Arun
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Spam in plain English is essentially junk mail or unsolicited commercial mail pitching various goods or services. They could be for coupons, p*nis enlargement devices (no, they don’t work 😉 ), movies, music concerts, matrimonial sites, exotic vacations, adult services and endless other things.
When Spam first became an issue some 10-years ago only unscrupulous marketers resorted to spamming (i.e. sending junk mail). But corporations have now become so desperate for sales that these days even so-called reputable companies engage in spamming by buying e-mail lists. So, share your personal e-mail address with few close friends/family members and for the rest hand out an alternate one.
2. Spam is bad because a) it wastes your time with promotions for goods/services that you have not asked for b) it can serve as a vehicle for viruses when you open the message c) it can lead to your being cheated as with the Nigerian spammers falsely promising you millions of dollars d) it can steal information from your PC like login names/passwords of online bank accounts that will then be depleted of funds by criminals and e) it can deposit viruses/malware and hijack your PC for bad ends (like sending spam to others or engaging in denial of service attacks on web sites et al).
3. Some readers’ comments go into the SI blog spam-hole either because WordPress classifies it as spam due to odd behavior from that IP address or on account of some rule we’ve set.
These days, we rarely see SI blog readers’ comments going into the spam-hole.
4. When you have the slightest doubt, the safe rule is to click Delete.