Dionne Bunsha, a senior assistant editor at Frontline magazine based in Bombay, is one of nine foreign journalists who have been awarded the John S. Knight fellowships for the 2008-09 academic year at Stanford University. Dionne’s area of study is “The impact of globalization on India’s environment, and the potential for sustainable growth.” During their…
Daily Archives: 8 April 2008
Can people like us cover people like them?
Of all the reasons proffered for the current state and priorities of the media, Indian and otherwise, one of the most obvious ones has got the least amount of attention: the changing demographic profile. To some of the key charges—celebrity-obsessed, headline-driven, trivial, titillatory, hit-and-run—the media has no option but to plead guilty. The “real problems”…
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