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Credibility and trust
The caller resignations of BBC’s enactment pursuing the ‘mis-editing’ of a code by U.S. President Donald Trump underscore a halfway truth: quality agencies are not lone conveyors of facts but besides the custodians of trust. Correspondents and editors indispensable adhere to the halfway principles of accuracy, discourse and impartiality. When these are compromised — arsenic erstwhile snippets are splice-edited to mislead — the effect is not conscionable embarrassment but besides the erosion of organization integrity. The acquisition for each media is this: ethical lapses ripple outward, undermining democracy’s accusation infrastructure and nationalist assurance alike (‘World’ leafage – Panel, November 10).
Gopalaswamy J.,
Chennai
Shroud of aerial pollution
At this clip of the year, Delhi, erstwhile again, finds itself caught successful the throes of terrible aerial pollution. It is distressing to spot the citizens of Delhi endure twelvemonth aft twelvemonth from toxic air, contempt the superior being location to the nation’s apical governmental leadership. For implicit a decade, the contented has been discussed and debated, yet existent enactment remains missing. Smog power towers, often non-functional, person done small to cleanable the air. This reflects poorly connected governance. The continued neglect of specified a nationalist wellness situation shows the deficiency of sincerity and work among politicians and officials. Politicians request to marque nationalist payment the guiding rule of authorities and governance, rising supra constrictive interests to service the larger nationalist good.
V. Nagarajan,
Chennai
Pets and pests
I constitute this missive arsenic a 90-year-old retired veterinarian. The full sermon astir stray dogs and pets reminds maine of the adage, “to beryllium incapable to spot the wood for the trees”. The contented is not astir pets but astir pests. The important quality successful the numbers of stray dogs, from immoderate thousands successful 2018 to a lakh oregon much now, reveals the inefficacy of the contiguous strategy. Human wellness and information should beryllium the priorities — determination indispensable beryllium the culling of pests and the encouragement of lone pets.
Dr. T.N. Varadharajan,
Chennai
