It is one thing to scoop the cables of American diplomats obtained by WikiLeaks, and it is quite another to project WikiLeaks’ maverick founder, Julian Assange, not merely as the facilitator of the cable-leaks but as the fount of all wisdom contained in them. But The Hindu has managed to do both inside 30 days.…
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Death of a Foreign Correspondent Foretold
Death scribbled an ugly autograph today, but the book of life is really about life. Tens of men and women who shackled their seatbelts in Dubai after dinner last night, with their children in tow, hoping to have breakfast with their near and dear ones in Mangalore, didn’t get to see them although they were…
‘American media misleading the American public’
A journalist’s twin points of references should be the real and the important. But, for months, the focus of the coverage of the presidential elections in the United States has been on trivia, writes Gabor Steingart in Der Spiegel, thus misleading the American public. Instead of addressing important issues of war and peace, health and…
‘Horse carriage makers didn’t make the cars’
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen in an interview with Frank Hornig of Der Spiegel: “The Internet is becoming real now in a way it has never been before. It’s becoming the main medium in which consumers engage to get information and to communicate. You can see this happening in advertising, you can see it happening in…
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