Internet Lumpen….
April 26, 2011At the outset, I apolgise if this sounds like a tale of a spat in a kindergarten playground. It was one of those kind of days. Morning was spent at the university looking at some terrible answer papers “radio is an…
Category: Media
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
How To Read WikiLeaks :)
April 5, 2011From my column in today’s DNA – “ “Read WikiLeaks, smirk and move on” Tortuous Convolvulus is one of the most fascinating comic book characters. He appears in Asterix and the Roman Agent. Tortuous Convolvulus is a troublemaker par excellence — he…
Twitter Does not Cause Revoultion, People Do
February 21, 2011… My Column in today’s DNA: You need to have been stuck under a rock in Antarctica or living in furthest reaches or China to have missed the popular protest in Egypt that led to the fall of a thirty-year-old dictatorship of…
Of Coffee, Conversations & Death Threats
December 27, 2010….. the virtual world in general, and twitter in particular, makes for quite an interesting experience. I don’t know whether it is by design or it just happened by default, on Twitter, i interact with a bunch of people from different ends…
Radia Tapes – Coverage Begins
December 1, 2010Over 10 days after the story broke in the Open Magazine & Outlook, the rest of the media seems to have gotten into the act of covering the #Radiatapes – especially the ethics of journalists on the tapes. NDTV went first yesterday…
Radia Tapes – Silence of the Lambs ….
November 29, 2010Last week i had posted on the media black out of the RadiaTapes – filed in the SC as evidence – and that has the who’s who of media, industry and politics – an incestuous oligarchy – in conversation, in an…
Radia Tapes – Letter from an Editor ….
November 26, 2010A week has gone by, but MSM is yet to cover the story in a major concerted manner, though opinion pieces have begun emerging both in India and outside. I have begun compiling a list of all pieces in the MSM, here….
Radia Tapes – Itna Sannata Kyon Hai, Bhai …
November 21, 2010… … the media silence on the Radia Tapes is deafening … For those of you watching and reading the Main Stream Media this week, life would be pretty much the same. 2 G scam, Karnataka, Some Asian Games Medals, some vague…
Conversations with Power Brokers – view
November 18, 2010Like many others – i read and then heard the recordings, allegedly, between a leading power broker and a leading journalist, with horror… What caused the horror : a) it seems that power brokers are using journalists to fix the composition of…
Conversations with Power Brokers – transcripts from the Open Mag
November 18, 2010Open – The Magazine has transcripts & audio files – conversations, allegedly between Barkha Dutt and Niira Radia – the reason I am putting it up here is that the Open Magazine servers have crashed …. This is also being put up…