Unfortunately, Shefaly, I don’t think you can compare a typo to an error on the scale of the Steve Jobs heart attack one. How many typos wiped almost 10% from a company’s share price?

I read the esteemed Financial Times, especially on weekends with a red pen. I discover enough typos to fill a couple A4 sheets. These are from well-paid, professional columnists and journalists.

What is that Christian dictum? Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone.

Which is why I do not call FT on those errors, although it is tempting since it will make an amusing (to me) and embarrassing (to the FT) post!

In the last 15 years we have been given the gift of exapanding information sources. And now, because of social media, we have come full circle to the original “marketplace of ideas” where everyone [ok everyone with an internet connection] has a chance to speak and be heard.

Yes, we now have to become an engaged participants in the news. Yes, we have to validate our own news sources and sort all the variations together in our own minds to determine what’s really going on. CNN or Fox News? The NYT or the National Enquirer? The BBC or the Chinese Government? Certainly the media makers have great responsibility, whether they are large corporations or citizen journalists. However, as media receivers we have great responsibility too. The ability to determine “truth” is finally back in the hands of the individual. Let’s not give it away again.

And thank Gawd for corrections. Did you know that if you’re off by just a couple of miles you can miss Hawaii – forever?

Good thing there’s breadth and depth to journalism. Hate to think if CNN or CBS ever reported something erroneously – or the NYT???