Friday, December 28, 2007

Official Statements

Following Benazir Bhutto’s death, the external affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee read out a statement on CNN IBN. The minister felt it necessary to read out the statement along with the punctuations. He said “full stop” after completing a sentence and “comma” before pausing in between a sentence. The first 24 hour news channel has been operational in India since 1998 and having been sufficiently exposed to 24 hour news channels, I have not quite come across anyone reading out a statement with punctuations. Please mail in with your comments about this practice, I would like to get rid of my ignorance.

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