Arianna Huffington, appearing at a US Senate hearing on the future of journalism, on the difference between traditional media and new media: “Traditional media has been afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder. They are far too quick to drop a story-even a good one, in their eagerness to move on to the Next Big Thing. Online…
Daily Archives: 7 May 2009
‘Indian media holding Indian democracy ransom’
The Wall Street Journal‘s bureau chief in India, Paul Beckett, has a major piece on the rampant corruption in the Indian media in the ongoing election coverage, with advertising masquerading as news for a fee, and neither readers nor voters being told about the deal. Brokers, he writes, are offering package deals for coverage in…
For the record, anything goes (* Conditions apply)
Several Indian newspapers and magazines have taken to running a disclaimer on advertisements to insulate themselves from “liabilities”. For instance, The Times of India group runs this on its classified advertising pages: But the right-wing English daily newspaper, The Pioneer has, well, pioneered a disclaimer which appears to include its editorial content. “Merely for reference”?…
Look, who wants to be a journo (after rebirth)
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, 66, who has had a tempestuous relationship with the media: “I would like to be a journalist. In fact in my interviews that I had given in the 1970s, I mentioned during most of them that I want to become a journalist in my next life. “I say this because I…
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