I love the news in India! The Front Page News of The Hindu carried an article today titled “Expired drugs in government hospitals seized”. Although the hospitals and their state in India is another blog entry, I proceeded to read the article. Noting that the article was written by an anonymous “Special Correspondent”, I was surprised to see just a paragraph describing a sting operation to confiscate said expired drugs. The last line of that paragraph reads, “Some of these drugs were antibiotics and anesthetics, Mr. Kumar said.” Next line – new paragraph – “Oil racket unearthed”.
If you are thrown off by this, do not be alarmed, so was I. After reading the next paragraph that talked about pilfering oil tankers, I realized there was a common thread that I failed to detect the first time I read the article. (Yes I read it more than once.) The commonality between the two paragraphs was that they both contained quotes by Mr. Kumar, who is the CBI Joint Director (Central Bureau of Investigation).
I must admire how economic newspapers are becoming. Not only are they condensing Front Page news articles to two paragraphs, but they are also grouping events that require input from the same person! Irrespective of the heading, once you start reading, they know you will want to finish the article, so therefore a 2-for1!
How very clever of them! http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/21/stories/2010052157810100.htm
