Posted by gargi on 04 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: India
Parallel Universes — a concept in science fiction, where realities slightly differing from our own exist. For example, there may be a universe where Hitler won or one in which India remained undivided. Usually, the wall between the universes cannot be breached.
But, the world’s largest selling English language quality broadstreet has another feather in its [...]
Posted by gargi on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print, TV
The day after news channels and politicians got their combined knickers in a twist about George Bush’s comments on India’s food consumption contributing to rising prices some interesting stats :
Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture for 2007 say each Indian eats only 178 kg of grain in a year, while a [...]
Posted by gargi on 30 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media
There are some stories that simply don’t make the news, while others more than make up for it in terms of volume……even though both may be in the same zone…..Let’s look at a few random examples:
Amitabh Bachchan’s house getting flooded is news, 1.3 million people in Bihar and Orissa losing their homes due to floods [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media
Project Censored has a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. This is obviously in the USA. And here censorship does not necessarily mean reports or reportage that the Government bans in a ham handed manner. Oh, those will get reported no. It is rather, a compbination of multiple stake holders who ensure [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
The NYT has an excellent op-ed on corruption. Specifically, corruption in the context of the Iraq war. Called Suicide is Not Painless (a kind of hat tip to MASH whose theme music was "Suicide is Painless"). It starts with the suicide of a civil servant who could have been indicted for corruption… and then it [...]
Posted by gargi on 13 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
This from IndianTelevision.com
Live India, which ran into controversy after telecasting a sting operation that was subsequently declared as fake, has been [...]
Posted by gargi on 10 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
this from the ToI
Delhi Police on Friday detained for questioning a TV channel reporter who conducted a sting operation on a government school teacher in an attempt to show that she was running a prostitution racket. "Prakash Singh, the television reporter of Live India, was asked to join investigation [...]
Posted by gargi on 06 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
This, a headline from the ET - India's most widely circulated business broadsheet : Some SC/STs too made it on merit replace the word SC/ST with any other ethnic/religious/gender grouping and tell me what is right/ wrong with this headline. media bias anyone or am I being oversensitive?
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Posted by gargi on 20 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: India, Print
the ToI - the world’s largest selling English paper - puts out a supplement where a South Indian - to be precise superstar Rajnikant - is referred to as a Southie. What next? a Muslim referred to as a Mossie, a North Indian as a bhaaiya, a Gujarati as a Gujju, [...]
Posted by gargi on 18 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print, TV
Anyone who participates in a show like Big Brother or Survivor knows that it is not a civilized tea party. It is visceral, viscious and violent (emotionally). The show is about being ‘ugly’ and letting it all hang out. Can you imagine how boring it would be if 13 people - whom you don’t know [...]
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