Err...Pottermania
I want to share with you the funniest thing i have ever read on the front page of a newspaper.
From the front page of the Sunday Times of India(Mumbai edition) dated july 17, 2005:
"By 6.35 am IST on Saturday morning, some intrepid-or Potter-crazed, depending on your point of view-senior editors of the TOI had already got their eager hands on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.Seconds later, they were frantically turning its 600-plus pages . By 6.45 am, the teleconferencing had begun. Hours later, a high-powered huddle was still taking place in our offices. The secret was out, we knew the identity of the major character who dies in the book. The big question- should we tell the world?"
Its very reassuring to know that the "world's largest English-language newspaper" has its journalistic priorities spot on.
P.S: Even though the Times ultimately didn't reveal the big "secret", another Times group paper, the Mumbai Mirror (such a flop that they distribute it free with the Times of India nowadays), no doubt after a high-powered meeting of its own, revealed the shocking identity in its Monday edition.
From the front page of the Sunday Times of India(Mumbai edition) dated july 17, 2005:
"By 6.35 am IST on Saturday morning, some intrepid-or Potter-crazed, depending on your point of view-senior editors of the TOI had already got their eager hands on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.Seconds later, they were frantically turning its 600-plus pages . By 6.45 am, the teleconferencing had begun. Hours later, a high-powered huddle was still taking place in our offices. The secret was out, we knew the identity of the major character who dies in the book. The big question- should we tell the world?"
Its very reassuring to know that the "world's largest English-language newspaper" has its journalistic priorities spot on.
P.S: Even though the Times ultimately didn't reveal the big "secret", another Times group paper, the Mumbai Mirror (such a flop that they distribute it free with the Times of India nowadays), no doubt after a high-powered meeting of its own, revealed the shocking identity in its Monday edition.
posted by citizensavage | 11:40 AM
4 Comments:
did they?
quite an interesting tid-bit.
Bloody the book is now become one useless movie type shit.
damn it's become one hell of an attempt at a tear jerker.
the other ones were brilliant. subtle yet touching....
dude i lost all the questions that i had made. f***in' windows crashed.
damn....i have like four days to use the net and fix up on.
damn...again!
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