Editorial in the Economic and Political Weekly: “July and August are the months of the “silly season” for the newspapers in the United Kingdom; with everyone on a summer holiday the papers are compelled to look for silly stories to fill the pages. The Indian media – especially the financial press – seems to be…
Tag Archives: Social Media
Poonam Pandey, Sachin Tendulkar & Telegraph
There are many pertinent questions to be asked about the unbridled (and burgeoning) use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media as a source of news by newspapers and TV stations—not to mention websites like these. One of those questions faces The Telegraph, Calcutta, which carried a picture* posted by the actor-stripper Poonam Pandey on…
Are all the best looking anchors in language TV?
Anything goes in the name of social media. In the spirit of the times, a 24-year-old male from Poona has created a group to gawk at and rate India’s hottest television news anchors on itimes, the social media site created by The Times of India‘s internet division. Hectic polling is on to rank the “most…
Ours is not to ask why, but Venn it struck us
Photograph: courtesy despair.com Link via Alfred Satish Jones
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