Weekday Squib: Burmees national holding protest

By on 18th September 2007 in Aside

A comedy of errors (and lazy editing)

The website of a major Indian newspaper has a curious lag between the featured photograph and the caption—something to do with caching, refreshing or suchlike. The resulting disconnect between photo and caption is usually funny. Like in this case.

Indian Express Website 18 Sep 2007 at about 21:30 IST

5 Responses to Weekday Squib: Burmees national holding protest

  1. Anand 18th September 2007 at 21:49 #

    Think of the other big time lag… the military ‘coup’ in Burma happened in the 60s no?

  2. Chetan 19th September 2007 at 01:39 #

    It’s an understood fact among most print media—wetting their diapers into the world of web—that the picture dept is more often than not out of phase with the story dept., but on Indian Express? That’s a wow!

  3. Chandra 19th September 2007 at 02:44 #

    It’s fairly common in IE to do screw up caption.

  4. JK 19th September 2007 at 03:34 #

    This is pretty common in Pioneer.

  5. Sriram 19th September 2007 at 10:58 #

    Is it not Burmese?

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