Daily Archives: 14 June 2011

Print or TV, ‘power’ is the new media magnet

There is a new money plant flowering at the feet of media men and media houses, and it’s called a power plant. *** Exhibit A: Mail Today, Friday, June 10: Trivandrum: The chief operating officer of a Malayalam cable TV channel provider, who tried to bribe a senior IAS officer, is cooling his heels behind…

3 deaths, 14 attacks on journos in last six months

GEETA SESHU writes from Bombay: The killing of Mid-Day (special investigations) editor J.Dey on Saturday, 11 June 2011, was the third death of a journalist in India over the last six months. In all three instances, investigations are on but no arrests have been made; much less is there any headway as to the killers…