Children’s Viewing
July 9, 2005I was skipping through channels today and chanced across Hungama – the childrens’ channel. Govinda was gyrating with some semi nude babe – the movie called Joru ka Ghulam What kind of Children’s viewing is this?
Category: Media
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
Headlines Today
June 26, 2005From today’s ET Entertainment – three choice headlines that were forwarded to me on as part of my Bloglines feeds: a) Salman’s Trial to Start on June 30th b) Saregama Hits despite lack of Musical Hits c) Now.. watch Brittany Spears N…
Bharateeya BlogMela – a round up
June 18, 2005Putting together this weeks’ blog mela was an incredibly rewarding experience. I had a wonderful journey through Indian blogdom. There are almost 50 posts featured here. My thanks to all those who nominated. Without Bloglines this task would have been chaotic:) I…
What a Headlline!!!
June 10, 2005Yesterday in the Economic Times – a headline which made me laugh: NRS 2005: ToI advances to No 9 reminded me of headlines when we were growing up – Indian Wrestler comes 35th – and the story would run — The Indian…
Radio Go Go
June 2, 2005Last year we did a spot of consultancy for one of the top 5 consulants. The area of consultancy was the business of media. One of the areas that was most striking in its dichotomy was FM radio. 1999 was the year…
Mumbai Mirror – First Impression
May 31, 2005Not at all bad. Better that the ToI in terms of Over all News. Better than the Mid Day(which has really gone downhill in the last couple of years) in terms of Mumbai specific news. And these are the two that i…
A week is a long time in Desecration
May 28, 2005Last week poor Newsweek got jhapoed by the Pentagon for publishing a report on the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo Bay . The Pentagon put on its most angelic face and swore that nothing of that sort had happened. Newsweek was…
Conflicting Message
May 25, 2005The HT hoarding legend reads – LET THERE BY LIGHT, in the process cutting off the light of the residents of Heera Panna. With HT in front of the building and Pyramid next to it, Heera Panna may be in a posh…
Laugh a Minute
May 25, 2005One of the things that I have always admired about the Bennet and Coleman Group is their unabashed chutzpah! Kuch bhi bol dete hai. I remember when they launched Indiatimes, the ToI ran a piece on “you can search the web with…
Survey in the mail
May 19, 2005In my inbox today – a peculiar mail. An excerpt from it: Dear Sir/Madam, We request you to take some time off your busy schedule to fill in this questionnaire about “Blogging”. The survey is aimed at finding out what does/could drive…