H.Y. Sharada Prasad stopping subbing the Indian Express and served three Indian Prime Ministers almost without a blemish. William Safire brought much-needed gravitas to Richard Nixon‘s presidency. Alastair Campbell graduated from being a Daily Mirror political editor to a champion “spinster” without a problem. But what is it about moder-day Indian journalists who find it…
Daily Archives: 14 July 2007
‘Press freedom more important than privacy’
OK. You are the son of the President of a poor African nation. You are, not surprisingly, the head of the marketing arm of your country’s state-owned oil company. You live it up, as most children of poor Asian and African heads of state do. You party hard, you spend lavishly. Then, a pesky human…