[Reader-list] Who dominates / owns the Media in India?

[anupam chakravartty]

It is true that there is a brahminical domination in media in terms of
number people from such and such caste. However, diversity of the opinions
raised by various media houses it just proves caste or religion doesn't
really matter. what matters for most of the media personnel is a good
package, some kind of exposure, meeting people, exchanging information and
writings.

however, if someone can prove that brahminical understanding has something
to do with the range of opinions that we encounter everyday through various
channels, then it becomes really interesting. but most of it would commit
the fallacy of accident.

thanks- anupam


On 4/21/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> That the Media in India (in part or with overwhelming influence) is
> dominated by the "upper caste" is not the only opinion about it.
>
> Many or most of the List members might have come across two interesting
> emails that have been circulating for quite some time that claim to tell you
> the 'real truth' about the Media in India:
>
> 1. One such Email details for you the ownership of almost all the prominent
> Indian Media Houses, seeking to establish that it is owned/controlled by
> either the Leftists or the Islamists or the Christianists.
>
> 2. The second such Email takes you on a journey of not only the ownership
> of the Media Houses but also how the prominent personalities in Media,
> Politics and Bueraucracy are directly  or indirectly related/linked to each
> other and therefore collectively excercise a vice like grip.
>
> What interests me is the references that are made to "upper caste"
> domination of the Media. It is also sometimes called "Brahmanical
> domination'.
>
> - Is it the "Brahmanical and/or upper caste domination" of Hindus?
>
> - Is this "Brahmanical and/or upper caste domination" just a metaphor that
> might equally apply to Hindus, Muslims, Christians etc or might apply to
> Economic Caste Divisions?
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
>
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