Mind
your business!
Your source, please!
Company chairmen or captains of industry should know better than
to ask journalists for their sources. An official of a leading chamber
group called up a journalist and wanted to know the source of a
report that was published.
"How did you get it? Who gave it to you? We would like to know,"
he asked, only to be told that journalists don't divulge their sources.
"Coming from a leading chamber, you should know that,"
the journalist told him.
Euphoric
economy
The common cause of the defeats of the UNP and the BJP at recent
elections in Sri Lanka and India? A "euphoric" economy.
It was euphoric in terms of growth rates and macro economic indicators
that meant little to rural masses.
Cure
for AIDS
A foreign firm was recently taken to task by the consumer products
regulator for advertising drugs that cure heart attacks and HIV/AIDS.That
advertisement was promptly pulled off the media. But last week a
new, subtle one appeared promising a cure for similar ailments and
viral diseases. |
