For err... and ever
For err... and ever
Yearender 5 February, 2011 - Kuensel newsroom employees could go broke in the year of the Rabbit.
Errors made by the reporter, editor, copy editor and layout designer will be counted in cash. Factual errors and layout errors will cost Nu 100, typos and grammatical errors Nu 50 and headline errors Nu 200. With errors featuring in the paper day after day, year after year the news team felt that something drastic had to be done if it were to make an improvement. In the year of the tiger errors were as plenty and glaring as the stripes of the magnificent beast.One victim of the errors was access to facebook from office, the contagious social networking site. This came after an edition carried an incomplete story that had readers calling up gleefully to find out if a part two was in the pipeline. The next issue carried a rejoinder saying The following paragraphs were inadvertently deleted from the story.... The mistake, it was agreed happened, because facebook had distracted the designer. A protest followed from the large number of facebookers in the newsroom about how the site was a source of information and instant updates on what was happening elsewhere. But thats another story. Few weeks later another story led readers to the abyss of wonderment. The remaining portion never got published. It wasnt that pertinent an issue that it had to published. Moreover since the mistake occurred in K2 magazine, a week later was too long a gap. The editors billowing in their cubicle is an occasional racket. Even though the stories go through them, sometimes the errors are quite tricky. And titles like colonel go undetected asKarnal. The DANTAK official colonel Sanjay was renamed Karnal Sanjay. Karnal did sound like a proper name to the reporter concerned. Opposition leader Tshering Tobgay once had a spelling bee competition on his blog on how his name is spelt. He had circled a cover story where he was Tshering Tobgay in the story, Tshering Tobgye in the strap and Ts! hering T obgyel in the pull out quote. Obviously he was hopping mad thinking the paper didnt give two hoots about how his name was spelt. The erronous power of the print media is not limited to renaming and re-spelling peoples names. Weve also demoted officers to lower ranks. In the year of the Ox the police chief was demoted from brigadier to colonel. In the tiger year the commandant of the royal body guard was demoted to Dozin from Goongloen Wogma. Our guess is the next demotion may be from the army and one newsroom employee Nu 100 poorer. Such capabilities also bring life to inanimate objects like timber to warmblooded Swan timber. Airstrips gain life and momentum and runaway. Things hardly age in a year, but weve given enough reasons for collectors to think one of the issues is worth collecting. That issue was when the blue and bold KUENSEL mast head went to print as KUENSE. Wonder what that means. Weve created an eighth day, Thrusday that appeared numerous times on the masthead. Weve even tried and incorporated the Bhutanese way of counting days by repeating certain dates like Monday January 11 and Tuesday January 11 in two consecutive issues. Small things which matter to readers, like the price has been marked erratically. The saturday edition repriced as Nu 10 was marked Nu 5 creating havoc for the distributors. Phrases and words are generously used often that readers develop a sense of de ja vu. Cut the mustard, alls well that ends well, lacuna, cull, brush up, passing of the guards, snafu are only a few.Bloopers may seems funny, but it irritates readers, especially those whore are affected by it. Friends, often say they read an issue and discuss and debate only to find out a corrigendum in tomorrows issue, which leaves their debate nowhere. And whats worse? A corrigendum with errors? A leopard cat was wrongly captioned as leopard cub and in a corrigendum which followed it said... The animal was wrongly identified as leopard club instead of a young leopard cat. The error is regretted. The good thing ab! out cash deductions is that a sizeable fund will be pile at the end of the year that could be used for a lavish night out or a grand picnic by all who contributed to it.
Yearender 5 February, 2011 - Kuensel newsroom employees could go broke in the year of the Rabbit.
Errors made by the reporter, editor, copy editor and layout designer will be counted in cash. Factual errors and layout errors will cost Nu 100, typos and grammatical errors Nu 50 and headline errors Nu 200. With errors featuring in the paper day after day, year after year the news team felt that something drastic had to be done if it were to make an improvement. In the year of the tiger errors were as plenty and glaring as the stripes of the magnificent beast.One victim of the errors was access to facebook from office, the contagious social networking site. This came after an edition carried an incomplete story that had readers calling up gleefully to find out if a part two was in the pipeline. The next issue carried a rejoinder saying The following paragraphs were inadvertently deleted from the story.... The mistake, it was agreed happened, because facebook had distracted the designer. A protest followed from the large number of facebookers in the newsroom about how the site was a source of information and instant updates on what was happening elsewhere. But thats another story. Few weeks later another story led readers to the abyss of wonderment. The remaining portion never got published. It wasnt that pertinent an issue that it had to published. Moreover since the mistake occurred in K2 magazine, a week later was too long a gap. The editors billowing in their cubicle is an occasional racket. Even though the stories go through them, sometimes the errors are quite tricky. And titles like colonel go undetected asKarnal. The DANTAK official colonel Sanjay was renamed Karnal Sanjay. Karnal did sound like a proper name to the reporter concerned. Opposition leader Tshering Tobgay once had a spelling bee competition on his blog on how his name is spelt. He had circled a cover story where he was Tshering Tobgay in the story, Tshering Tobgye in the strap and Ts! hering T obgyel in the pull out quote. Obviously he was hopping mad thinking the paper didnt give two hoots about how his name was spelt. The erronous power of the print media is not limited to renaming and re-spelling peoples names. Weve also demoted officers to lower ranks. In the year of the Ox the police chief was demoted from brigadier to colonel. In the tiger year the commandant of the royal body guard was demoted to Dozin from Goongloen Wogma. Our guess is the next demotion may be from the army and one newsroom employee Nu 100 poorer. Such capabilities also bring life to inanimate objects like timber to warmblooded Swan timber. Airstrips gain life and momentum and runaway. Things hardly age in a year, but weve given enough reasons for collectors to think one of the issues is worth collecting. That issue was when the blue and bold KUENSEL mast head went to print as KUENSE. Wonder what that means. Weve created an eighth day, Thrusday that appeared numerous times on the masthead. Weve even tried and incorporated the Bhutanese way of counting days by repeating certain dates like Monday January 11 and Tuesday January 11 in two consecutive issues. Small things which matter to readers, like the price has been marked erratically. The saturday edition repriced as Nu 10 was marked Nu 5 creating havoc for the distributors. Phrases and words are generously used often that readers develop a sense of de ja vu. Cut the mustard, alls well that ends well, lacuna, cull, brush up, passing of the guards, snafu are only a few.Bloopers may seems funny, but it irritates readers, especially those whore are affected by it. Friends, often say they read an issue and discuss and debate only to find out a corrigendum in tomorrows issue, which leaves their debate nowhere. And whats worse? A corrigendum with errors? A leopard cat was wrongly captioned as leopard cub and in a corrigendum which followed it said... The animal was wrongly identified as leopard club instead of a young leopard cat. The error is regretted. The good thing ab! out cash deductions is that a sizeable fund will be pile at the end of the year that could be used for a lavish night out or a grand picnic by all who contributed to it.
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