Daily Archives: 28 May 2011

Our media only bothers about elite, middle-class

SHAH ALAM KHAN writes from New Delhi: In April this year the media went into a loud and vulgar rapture as Anna Hazare continued his four-day fast against corruption at Jantar Mantar in the capital. Hyperventilating TV newscasters repeatedly declared that the issue of corruption has “touched a cord” with the middle class. The circus…

‘Newspaper In Education’ has a new meaning

For decades The Times of India Relief Fund used to be the paper’s most prominent “CSR activity”. Malayala Manorama took the lead the in building houses in earthquake-hit Latur in the mid-1990s. Plenty of newspapers and magazines chipped in for the tsunami-affected in Tamil Nadu. India Today even launched a project called Care Today. Now,…