Put it down to the current age’s obsession to reduce complexities to bumper stickers. Or the compulsion of journalism to find a vantage through which to lead readers or viewers into a development. While reporting the death 88-year-old George Fernandes, media outlets called him a former Union minister — an atrociously inadequate description of the Socialist stalwart who captured India’s imagination in the 1970s.
Put it down to the current age’s obsession to reduce complexities to bumper stickers. Or the compulsion of journalism to find a vantage through which to lead readers or viewers into a development. While reporting the death 88-year-old George Fernandes, media outlets called him a former Union minister — an atrociously inadequate description of the Socialist stalwart who captured India’s imagination in the 1970s.