Thursday, 19 January 2012, is a red-letter day in The Hindu calendar. After an eight-year tenure as its helmsman, Narasimhan Ram will step down as editor-in-chief of South India’s largest English newspaper; a tenure pockmarked by several professional highs and as many personal lows. While N. Ram can justly claim to have played a role…
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In which Julian Assange gives it to MasterCard
20 secure phones to assist in staying anonymous: $5,000 Fighting legal cases across five countries: $one million Upkeep of servers in over 40 countries: $200,000 Donations lost due to banking blockade: $15 million Added cost due to house arrest: $500,000 Watching the world as a result of your work: priceless. Also read: How The Hindu…
The WikiLeak cable on the journalist who…
M.D. Nalapat, former resident of The Times of India in Bangalore and Delhi, in the Pakistan Observer: “While some NGOs are run by sincere individuals interested not in personal but in social gain, many of the organisations active in India act as milch cows for those controlling them. “For example, a top journalist got formed…
‘Indian media eclipses America’s and Europe’s’
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.…
Newspapers used to bribe voters in Tamil Nadu
The second tranche of American diplomatic cables published by The Hindu today in collaboration with Wikileaks, throws light on how newspapers—yes—have become a delivery vehicle for politicians and parties to deliver cash to voters at the time of elections. The paper quotes from a cable sent by Frederick J. Kaplan, acting principal officer of the…
How The Hindu got hold of Wikileaks’ India cables
The Hindu has a massive, six-million-word scoop today. The newspaper has gained access to the 5,100 US embassy cables with the State department, thanks to Wikileaks, and has begun publishing them in tranches. (So far, only 40 or so cables relating to India have seen the light of day.) The cables, in the words of…
How US forces hunted down Reuters staffers
In July 2007, two employees of the Reuters news agency were among several killed in Iraq when US military forces opened fire on them. Saeed Chmagh, 40, a driver with the agency with a wife and four children, and Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, a war photographer, were among those killed. The US military claimed the victims…
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