Bus plunges kill people but save newspapers
Starting in the mid 1900’s and hitting its peak in 1968 the New York Times continually ran shorts dealing with bus crashes about plunges across the globe. The stories were no more than a few sentences long, included the word “plunge” in the headline, and told who and how many were injured or killed.
Starting in about 1980 the few lines of tragic crashes seemed to have become extinct, but not because global bus accidents were lacking. The shorts were cut out of news paper printing because of the development of more sophisticated newspaper printing software which could better piece together the pages.
Before, plunge shorts were used as fillers between stories, only being a few lines they were the perfect length but now, computers are able to piece together pages leaving bus plunging without a place in the modern newspaper.
But what if we need bus plunges? According to Shafer that’s what is missing in today’s newspapers. “Am I the only one who finds the layouts of today's newspapers to be too symmetrical, too sterile, and too predictable?” Said Shafer. The little tid-bits of news that once broke up broadsheet pages of long stories is what kept readers interest. Now newspapers are predictable, perhaps applying the same idea or printing little pieces of off beat news today would bring consumers back to the newspaper.
Maybe instead of trying to change the paper itself, journalists should change what they put in the paper.
Source:Slate
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Hi,
This is the time for us to go back home after this beautiful trip in India. Still I have to stay few days more for in Delhi for my business meetings.
Four times I had been alone and traveling by my own. But this time I made my travel with my wife and children’s. I really thanks to Mr. Raju to organize this beautiful trip for us.
It was kind of organized trip and sometime if you are traveling with your family it is better not to waste time just to waiting for buses and trains, some time it is really complicated to travel by local transport most of the time they are not on time.
I crossed all the Rajasthan (second time). It was kind of off-beat track also little bit.
My route was :-
Day 1 – Delhi just for one night.
Day 2,3– mandava and shekhawati area for two nights.
Day 4 – bikaner for one night
Day 5 – khimsar fort just for one night
Day 6,7,8 – jaisalmer for three nights, we spend one night in the desert with camel safari.
Day 9 – jodhpur for one night
Day 10 – ranakpur jain temples – one night
Day 11 – udaipur for one night
Day 12 rawla khempur one night ( we enjoyed horse safari)
Day 13, 14 pushkar for two nights.
Day 15 bundi just for one night ( still non touristy place)
Day 16, 17 – Ranthambhore national park for two nights ( we did four safari in the jungle and we have seen one time tiget)
Day 18, 19 – Jaipur for two nights
Day 20 – agra – one night is enough there.
Day 21 – Gwalior – for one night.
Day 22 – orchha it is very beautiful and very peaceful place.
Day 23 – khajuraho – kamasutra temples. Incredible work on stone.
Day 24 – we took flight from khajuraho to varanasi.
Day 24,25 – in Varanasi for two nights. Completely different place. I never have seen such a place. Completely different with very heavy atmosphere.
Day 26,27,28 – Delhi three nights just for my business meetings, otherwise it is too much to be in Delhi for three nights.
In most of the forums the business people put there own advertise with diffrent names, it was really horribel when I knew this.
Many small things we can only know when we travel to India. I got lot of good and bad experience from my this travel. I know still I have lot to tell many good and bad things and how to avoid, about this travel.
If anyone really planning to travel to India just leave a message to me by charaswanu@yahoo.com I will try to answer you soon. We should help each other by our experience.
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In most of the places we choose good, clean, typical Indian hotels mix with some luxury palace hotels to have just an experience only.
If you are going first time to India I know my experience and suggestion can help you lot.
Wishes.
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