Why I love the ‘Times of India’
Two ToI habits I love:
On the left, a paragraph about how Kylie Minogue is dying of breast cancer. On the right, picture of said pop star half naked. Classy.
Three-paragraph items where headline, para 1 and 2 are just a quip padded and rewritten. Then you get to para 3 and realize the quote is wildly out of context and the whole thing is meaningless. Fictional example:
PARIS HILTON SAYS SHE WANTS TO SLEEP WITH SAI BABA!
Paris Hilton expressed a desire to sleep with Sai Baba.
Sai Baba is the man that Paris Hilton said she wants to sleep with.
“I just love exotic Indian spiritual stuff,” she said. “I heard some guy with curly hair and it really got me going.”
Very Godot.
on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007, 9:47 pm in Humor, Media, Times of India › 
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you gotta be kidding me.
Future TOI Headline:
“Sai Baba preaches use of protection for fear of catching something nasty”
Just to be clear, this is a fictional example, but the real ones ain’t far off.
Speaking of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears
I am so tempted to wildly misquote this story and set off a rumor about Paris and Sai Baba
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