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FISH MARKET: MEDIA”S REALITY TV

February 10, 2010

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Arnab Goswami has started a new trend in broadcast journalism; a reality TV show of a fish market, a slugfest given to the highest decibels. If you saw his TV program on rising food prices on Times Now on January 14th 2010 featuring Brinda Karat , Ravi Shankar Prasad and Manish Tiwari , you would… [Read more…]

WHY DOES INDIAN MEDIA NOT LIKE SHASHI THAROOR?

February 10, 2010

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It started with a standard innocuous private decision of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to stay in a five-star hotel pending the refurbishment of his allotted government bungalow. Suddenly all hell broke loose as if a dreaded terrorist had just sneaked into Central Hall of the Indian Parliament for a quick cappuccino. Besides being publicly chastised… [Read more…]

THE BUCK STOPS WITH VAJPAYEE

February 10, 2010

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( In defense of Lieberhan Report ) I am focusing this piece on what seems to have become recently the central controversial issue of the Justice Lieberhan Report on the Babri Masjid demolition at Ayodhya in 1992 ( courtesy BJP media cell’s skilful handling and the Congress’s surprising pussy-footing strategy on the subject ) —-… [Read more…]

THE BUCK STOPPED HERE

February 10, 2010

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Last week was expectedly about 26/11 remembrance and the excess coverage given the monstrous nature of that calamity could even be grudgingly understood. I think we should not make media-bashing a cavalier past-time , a close runner-up to political thrashing. So here goes. Headlines Today reconstructed the Metro-Cama hospital exchange where the trapped trio of… [Read more…]

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