The “news” channel Aaj Tak in a sting operation revealed a divided Indian team according to this story on Cricinfo. I decided to check the meaning of “Sting Operation”. Wikipedia provides the following definition:
“In law enforcement, a sting operation is an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime by means of deception.”
Even if we grant that the “committing a crime” bit is negotiable, the Aaj Tak story is a bit of a stretch. When you consider that this is one of those news channels which plays the same tape in an infinite loop for days on end for a single story, irrespective of developments in the story, the story is even more of a stretch.
The most interesting thing about this story was which word would be in quotes – sting or revealed. Instead, as you can see, i decided to play safe and apply quotes to “news”.
