A shower of freebies is the first sign that an election season is around the corner. Three weeks after finance minister P. Chidambaram wrote off farm loans worth Rs 60,000 crore with an eye clearly on the coming general elections, the gravy train is picking up steam across India. In the southern State of Andhra…
Daily Archives: 25 March 2008
Why blogging is more interesting than reporting
The jury is still out on blogging—and if left to the mainstream media, it will remain out for ever. Is it good, is it journalism, does it have the “institutional” checks and balances, do bloggers go out and report a story… questions like these have been hurled for very nearly a decade without hurting anybody.…
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