*** Battle-weary journalists, who have been there, done that and seen it all, think they know exactly how the media houses which employ them should deal with the existential threat posed by the #Coronavirus pandemic. You could call this the sentimental view, the belief that, at this inflection point for the media business, the least…
Daily Archives: 8 May 2020
When a warm tribute to a dead journalist is mostly about a humourist who never met him despite 32 years in the same city
Jug Suraiya pays tribute to R.V. Smith, the former news editor of The Statesman, in a column in today’s Times of India. The tribute is interesting for three reasons. One, it is mostly about Jug Suraiya, not the recently deceased Smith. Two, despite having lived in Delhi for over 30 years, Jug Suraiya admits their…
