Media Literacy: A Need for Development of India
There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting ‘public service journalism’. Most organisations are lost in their need...
National TV Media Finally Smell Petrichor: Kerala Bracing Up for More Trouble Ahead
Sad commentary on the media. One man’s death counted more than the lives of thousands. Misplaced priority? But who’s gonna tell that to a media sold to an idea,...
An Undeclared Emergency: Controlling Media from the 10th Floor
Television and the net media are making news, especially in the context of coverage given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It has been divulged by a fairly popular TV...
Modi-Shah Desperate to Muzzle Free Press before Lok Sabha Poll
The media situation in the country is precarious. At the national level, excepting one or two, most of the leading news channels managements are aligned with the ruling party...
Agenda of Taming Delhi Journalists
The liberal journalist is this regime’s No.2 enemy. And dividing the media is a work in progress. Some have been turned. Others are being targeted. Among the second lot...
Disillusions of Worshipping False Gods
Arun Shourie in his journalistic heydays was not like Arnab Goswami. He recognised talent in young journalists and went out of his way to give them a chance. Today,...
Fake News: The Octopus in the Newsroom
The hard fact these days of impact journalism and paid news is that perception managers run newsrooms, not newspersons; and journalists get to become ‘made guys’ when they’re promoted...
On Jey Day, Jigna Walks Free: Mumbai Scribes Take Reporting to the Underworld
The day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with nine others, while another journalist, alleged femme...