Tag Archives: Media Barons

One culture’s pinnacle is another’s base camp

Vir Sanghvi in Mint: “The new Controller of BBC One, England’s top TV channel, is 40. James Murdoch, who has taken over his father’s media interests outside the US, is 34. “Is this as true of the Indian media scene? Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt are young editors of TV channels. But most of their…

‘Modi has punctured vanity of corporate media’

Sheela Bhatt, managing editor (national affairs), rediff.com, and one of the few journalists who predicted the Gujarat elections accurately, on the strange symbiosis between the media and chief minister Narendra Modi: “In Gujarat, many people wondered: “Look, how powerful is Modi. He can even defeat the media.” “Today, the common belief is that the corporate…