Redundancies in Newspaper Reports

In their enthusiasm to report the fire at the Bengaluru Aero Show 2019, the city's own Deccan Herald published a badly subbed copy with redundant expressions.

In a report titled Over 300 cars burnt as massive fire engulfs Aero India, the newspaper copy trieds its best to sell the story, but with some stale expressions.

The reporter does like the word, billow, which appears multiple times in the story.

Then comes a slew of expressions, just to hype the disaster.

In the Times of India also, there were redundancies galore in reports about the fire. The report says "an unextinguished cigarette butt or a short circuit" as probable reasons for the fire.

Cambridge Dictionary defines Butt as the "part of a finished cigarette that has not been smoked!"