Posts Tagged ‘26th november terror attacks Mumbai’

This announced today
Under the six-point guidelines framed by the umbrella body NBA (News Broadcasters Association), the channels shouldn’t be telecasting [...]

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sometimes i wonder, whether time makes us heal or does it make us forget. Three weeks are over, and the fourth begins
The road to justice has yet to be sighted

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The Facebook forwards are dying out. So are the SMS’s. Most people have either moved on with their lives, or decided to act.  And, in the third week it is pleasently surprised to see how many people have actually decided to donate time and energy to ‘do something’.
whether that ’something’ is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is [...]

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Duh …. This from here:

Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi has claimed that the group was not involved in the Mumbai carnage but said his organisation would admit its mistakes provided it was proved that it was in any way linked to the attacks, which left a trail of death and destruction.

looks like the Jamaat-ud [...]

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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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Yesterday, elections results in 5 states were announced. The Congress won three of them.
I wonder whether the disconnect between the media, the elite and the electorate is so much!
I truly respect the PM. I like this government – possibly because it is not in my face. But, i thought it was out of touch [...]

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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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At another point in my blogging life, i had posted this. must have been some other calamity/ disaster/terror strike.
I came across an old poem of Khalil Gibran – used to read him when i was a student. it was the in thing to do in those days. and then when i went into work, i [...]

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i was there. it wasn’t a mass of humanity as much as many groups, and individuals each protesting or mourning in their own way. Most people smiled at each other,hardly jostled, kept their space, allowing others theirs, and yet bonding.
I used to think that candles were a just a symboic gesture. But in [...]

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this was supposed to be a longish post, till my dad pointed out that “Indian Intelligence” is an oxymoron. It is used for finding out who, in politics, sleeps with whom.
There are rumours that India has Intelligence Agencies. Their existence is possibly an Accounting Head, to show cash outflows. It is like other fictional [...]

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