Posts Tagged ‘Media Ethics’

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, [...]

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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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In a world where journalists are taught that ‘man bites dog’ is news, it is hardly surprising that they will look at a 5 page academic report by the Prime Minister, and pick out the only line that they possibly understood. This morning, on return from a lovely weekend in Lonavala, we saw the [...]

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….. says the DNA – not in so many words, but that is more or less the take away. Some excerpts:
Come December 6, residents of Shivaji Park in Central Dadar press the panic button. Many alter their work and daily schedules, beef up security in buildings, inform schools that their children will remain absent, and [...]

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(warning: this post contains pictures that may offend the 'dignity', 'decency', and sensibility of some readers). Not Priyanka Vadera Gandhi, Not even Priyanka Chopra. But, Priyanka Bhotmange. Just a simple, ordinary girl called Priyanka who lived in a small little village called Khairlanji in the back of beyond in the state of Maharashtra. She studied [...]

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There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of Rahul Mahajan. For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father’s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in hospital OD’ing on some narcotic or the other, and in whose party [...]

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Pardon the really bad pun, but i had a bit of television news induced diabetes following the wall to wall television coverage of the boy stuck at the bottom of a well. This was the dumb newscasters’ dream come true – what can pull at the heart strings more than saving a child in [...]

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One of my favourite stories about journalists and journalism is this one (probably an urban legend but one which I can identify with):
"Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?"
Anyone who is following newschannels in India will be familiar with a camera in some poor sod’s face and the standard question ‘aapko [...]

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Are we heading towards another Emergency?’ while i have serious issues with the Government’s ham-handed response in blocking blogs – responses like this are truly overkill ! As someone who works in the media, I understand that links have to be clicked and papers have to be sold and channels have to be [...]

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The US administration on the Mumbai Bomb Blasts – why are they called 7/11 ? is our desire to find symmetry so high that we ape the unfamiliar? – today:
I know there’s a lot of speculation out there now. That happens in these cases. But I think we need to be led by [...]

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