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 25 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 19 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India
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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