Yesterday there was an attack on Srilankan cricketers in Pakistan. Supposedly gunmen opened fire and injured bunch of Lankan cricketers. Yeah it is bad and shouldn't have happened. But for people like me who rely on internet news channels, here is what we were greeted with on some of the leading Indian news papers.
It seemed more like a test of intelligence than plain news, I was supposed to deduce that there was an attack on Lankan players and it happened in Pakistan. Instead of brain teasing I took the easy way out and looked up on BBC for a news that made some sense.
I miss the plain old NEWS paper where the headlines don't change every minute or every second but will remain same (pretty much for ever).
1 comment:
That's an interesting observation. I too have felt this need many times. In fact many news papers sometimes assume that their readers already know the basics of front page news :-) Secondly, some types of news stories drag on for days. If you miss the first day coverage of the news, it is hard to know exactly _what_ happened on day 1!
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