Even Britain’s serious newspapers give out CDs and DVDs to boost circulation. India’s magazines dangle everything from watches to suitcases to cars to add numbers. One Bombay newspaper even sent out alphonso mangoes in a plastic bag in the early 1990s. So is a girlie magazine crossing the lakshman rekha in wooing readers by offering…
Daily Archives: 23 August 2007
Separated at girth till death do ’em apart
Britain and America, it has been said, are two countries separated by the same language. How about their journalism? Is American journalism led by “partisan loons”? Is British journalism “sober, respectable and balanced”? Not quite, says Lionel Laurent, a Columbia School of Journalism graduate, now a markets reporter for Forbes.com. “Unlike in Britain, where journalists…
Look what TV is doing to our women
Television may have become a bit of a bad word in India that is Bharat. We curse its crassness, we swear at its dumbness. But look what it is doing in the Bharat that is India? A new study by Robert Jensen of Brown University and Emily Oster of the University of Chicago shows that…
For Indian media, Shankar does not count
The New York Times‘ Amelia Gentleman has a story in today’s issue on the flood havoc in Bihar, and has these paragraphs: “At a national level, the plight of these flood victims arouses little compassion. In early August, when the United Nations declared the floods the worst in living memory, the miserable condition of the…
