Was it Dave Weiner? Ranjit Bhatnagar? Montaigne? Julius Caesar, perhaps? Scott Rosenberg, author of say everything, says the qeust for the first blogger is, in the end, an infinite recursion; each candidate a pointer to one before. And the search is as futile as searching for the first poet, first playwright, first novelist, or even…
Daily Archives: 17 September 2009
How a TV station was launched with Rs 4 lakh
How The Hindu reported the birth of India’s public television broadcaster 50 years ago. The terrestrial station went on air on 15 September but the report appeared in the newspaper two days later. Launched under the banner of All India Radio (AIR), it later attained its own brandname, Doordarshan. DD’s trademark signature, first brought to…
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