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[Shivam Vij]

The Hoot - March 2004
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MEDIA AND CONFLICT 

`Karachi captured': subcontinental cricketing wars 

The cricketers are now the avatars of a nation's sublimated violence 
that will be enacted on the playing fields of Pakistan. By Subarno 
Chattarji
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965234210Hoot62453%20PM1106&pn=1
 

Reporting in times of conflict

To keep the Gujarat pot boiling is to impede the healing process, 
argues Dasu Krishnamoorty
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web2196522725Hoot72935%20PM1096&pn=1
 

Book review: War and the Media

"War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7" explores several 
important issues relating to media and conflict situations. A review 
by Shubha Singh
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965233162Hoot100150%20PM1112&pn=1


MEDIA AND GENDER 

Indian sex workers: shifting portrayal

>From the genteel courtesans of Devdas and Umrao Jaan you now have the 
de-romanticised sex workers of Chandni Bar and Chameli who see men as 
customers. Shahla Raza notices the shift. (Women's Feature Service)
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web2196523724Hoot83209%20PM1103&pn=1


MEDIA WATCH

Vijay Karnataka helps launch a regional party

B.S.Chandrasekhar on how Karnataka's leading newspaper is 
energetically promoting the regional party launched by the 
newspaper's owner Vijay Sankeshwar in the run up to the state 
elections. 
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965236239Hoot81830%20PM1102&pn=14
 

EPW and the thinking Indian

A magazine that represents an emphatic triumph of content over form 
has lost an editor. By Ramachandra Guha in Himal
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965236222Hoot102721%20AM1092&pn=1

 

FOR READERS/VIEWERS 

The way the nankhatai crumbles

If we have to endure dubbed cartoons, can we at least have some 
consistency? Namitha Dipak on the evolution of an animation sub-
culture.
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965233162Hoot95522%20PM1111&pn=1


MEDIA ETHICS 

Journalists and spin-doctors

To avoid being taken for a spin, writes Jaya Uttamchandani, 
journalists should start treating spin doctors for what they are: not 
news providers, but government workers running campaigns to get their 
bosses elected. 
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965227240Hoot123937%20PM1097&pn=1

 
FOR JOURNALISTS 

An elegy on editing 

Dasu Krishnamoorty finds mistakes that make him doubt if copy 
editors/reporters ever take a second look at their copy. 
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965227192Hoot70501%20PM1087&pn=1
 

MEDIA ON MEDIA

A changing media universe

Old notions of national and mass no longer apply in a rapidly 
changing media universe. By Sevanti Ninan in The Hindu
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web210214166241Hoot122725%20PM1088&pn=1


PRESS FREEDOM

Nepal's insurgency drives journalists from their homes

Sanjaya Dhakal writes from Kathmandu about how journalists are 
displaced from their places of work and residence by both Maoist 
rebels and security forces. (From OneWorld.net)
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965233162Hoot101533%20PM1113&pn=1
 

VIEWS FROM THE REGION

Grim poll eve portents for Sri Lankan media

In the run up to the polls the media in Sri Lanka invites threats and 
intimidation, while its reporting is marked by biases. By Champika 
Liyanaarachchi in Columbo. (From OneWorld.net)
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web2196523474Hoot44939%20PM1109&pn=1


MEDIA STATISTICS

Latest Indian readership survey figures

Jagran among dailies and Saras Salil among magazines, lead in 
readership figures from IRS 03-04. The Hoot desk
http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web2196523420Hoot21003%20PM1115&pn=1 


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