Posts under ‘propaganda’

HyperActiveX – came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB.
And, this was in context of Mr.Advani – the leader of the BJP – who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use the net. (‘younger audiences’
In typical desi style, they have gone in for [...]

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I was telling someone the other day is that the saddest conclusion that i have reached is that the most honorable institution of them all is the Government.
Ultimately, no matter how venal, power mad, inept, or corrupt the are – sooner or later they are accountable and answerable to the people. They lose their jobs, [...]

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Two very different stories caught my attention today. Both are related to media coverage.
One was in the Indian Express by Rajat Sharma, of India TV, quoting a former Army Chief – who had come into the channel to advice producers & camerapersons on :
what precautions they should have taken while showing “live” action. [...]

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Like most others in blogosphere, I too read Barkha Dutt’s passionate defense of reportage on News Channels. My first response was to Fisk it. Wikipedia quotes Eric S. Raymond from the the Jargon File:

A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story. A really stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly factual; [...]

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This morning I was in class teaching Media Studies. We were looking at different aspects of media — especially the ‘filtering aspect’. Dennis McQuail – media theorist – defines this as
…selecting out parts of experience for special attention and closing off other aspects of experience, whether deliberately and systematically or not…
And, then i got [...]

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This from the RSS – The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh  not Really Simple Syndication
According to RSS, everybody has a right to pray for his deity in his style. But every Indian should accept that Ganga is a holy river and Ramayan and Mahabharata are the holy books of India.

Reminds me of the time (a lifetime [...]

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….the Chinese Ambassador to Canada :
''The Dalai Lama has been telling lies to the world for decades,''
''What has happened in Tibet was instigated by separatist groups led by Dalai Lama clique.''  ''Any remarks made accusing China of so called human rights suppression, I consider that irresponsible and inappropriate and it's interference in China's [...]

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Today is the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition…… it is also the anniversary of a particularly unpleasant personal failure, that was ignited by the demolition….
I was a student in London when the Mosque came down with a whole bunch of Hindutvadi’s baying for blood. Do you remember Sadhvi Rithambra screeching “ek aur dakha [...]

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I saw the Swiftboat Veterans Anti – Kerry ad on the net today. Quite an impressive piece of communication. It says just one thing, and keeps hammering that one thing over and over again.
The one line communication of the campaign is that John Kerry is not fit to be the President of the United States.Wonderful [...]

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