Daily Archives: 17 September 2007

Forget tomorrow’s, give us yesterday’s news

The dirty old man of Indian journalism, Khushwant Singh, has a good question in his latest column in the Hindustan Times. Where, he asks, is yesterday’s news? In other words, whatever happens to the stories that the media pursues like a pack of hounds for a while, and then—suddenly, mysteriously, inexplicably, uniformally—falls silent? “There are…