Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
Last night millions of homes in Mumbai had their first conversation in ages. The reason, television channels were blanked out by cable operators. The reason, Cable operators were protesting against police raids following a High Court Order in December to restrain cable…
Hot on the heels of people turning up in thousands to drink the sea water (turned sweet) at Mahim creek, comes the story of a whole bunch of temples in MP having idols that turned into milk guzzlers. What was a fairly…
There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of [tag]Rahul Mahajan[/tag]. For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father’s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in…
In another world, another time, this could be a name for a cola variant in MAD magazine. Unfortunately, in our world it is a term that is used to describe colas with large doses of pesticide. Naturally the reaction to it is…
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…
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…
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…
Assume that there are two brothers in the West (UK or US) called Peter & Paul Matthews. Peter is a Politician & Paul is a builder. One bright and chirpy Sunday morning in suberbia – Paul shoots Peter dead. In three days…
Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London.? The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the BBC-Reuters-Media Center “We Media†Forum and released Wednesday, ranked…
Check out the Guardian’s comment is free section – great set of blogs. would love to see something like this in our msm!