Say what you will, but the British papers are markedly more alive and refreshing than their American counterparts (as Tunku Varadarajan said here, and Matthew Engel said here). Have been and will probably always be. Surely, they are heavily opinionated “feral beasts“, but the British papers take themselves less seriously, are better written, more irreverent,…
Daily Archives: 26 July 2007
Tide against trivia turning one anchor at a time
Another silly American story and another silly American anchor in another silly piece of posturing. Last month it was Paris Hilton, this month it is Lindsay Lohan. Last month it was an MSNBC anchor (Mika Brzezinski) who refused to read news about her, this month it is a CNN anchor (John Cafferty). For a media…
Be your own boss. Be greedy. And never retire.
At an interview several years ago, Rahul Bajaj, the energetic bossman of Bajaj Auto, was asked when he planned to retire from his job. “Retire? Who retires?” shot back the acid-tongued man. “Only fools retire.” A similar lesson in life comes courtesy of The Economist this week. It looks at Rupert Murdoch, 76, trying to…
Does print still break more stories than TV?
Outlook magazine editor Vinod Mehta has this item in his Delhi Diary this week: “David Lean when he was casting for Lawrence of Arabia approached the great theatre actor Albert Finney and offered him the role of Lawrence (which eventually went to Peter O’Toole). The actor declined. “Don’t you know I’ll make you a star,”…
Holes in the veil and fear in the hearts
Shortly after 9/11, America invaded Afghanistan in 2001 citing the plight of women in that country under the Taliban. But in the six years since, how the lot of the Hidden Half improved under the benign gaze of The Great Liberator? The July/August issue of Mother Jones is featuring a photo essay by Canadian photojournalist…
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