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A front-page mea culpa in The Times of India, Bangalore, to the vice-president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), K. Govindraj. Govindraj had hit the headlines in June 2006 when he was reported as having allegedly molested a masseuse at the Commonwealth games in Melbourne.
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This entry was posted on 28 June 2010 at 4:46 pm and is filed under For the record, Newspapers, People.
Tags: BCCL, Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd, Churumuri, Joseph Hoover, Sans Serif, The Times Group, The Times of India, ToI
28 June 2010 at 6:50 pm
This is an abject apology by the newspaper.
But where was the need for “discreet enquiries”?
28 June 2010 at 11:56 pm
in journalism, what TOI did is considered the gravest of libel.
an apology might mitigate the damages in a plaintiff award, but it cannot pre-empt a libel conviction.
plus, TOI’s use of the word “apologies” seems casual, even insincere. the formal and proper expression would be “apology”.
i agree with naran above: who the heck is TOI to make any “discrete enquiries”? that seems outright sneaky. so even while admitting a mistake, TOI comes across as irritatingly self-righteous. but i am not surprised at such corruption from a paper that pioneered a “news-for-sale” phenomenon in india’s journalism.