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[Murali V]

Absolutely right on your assessment of the media and how they conduct. These
news channels are looking at increasing their TRP rating most time lacking
any substance. However they invariably are campaigners for certain parties.
Regards,
V Murali

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyways, the Indian media is not totally bad, but an in-depth understanding
> of any issue is of utmost importance, which most of our media people seem to
> lack. In particular, our TV media, consisting of the who's who of the
> stupids-cum-bosses hanging their noses around, seems to show very clearly.
> And then there are people following them closely on the newspaper circuit as
> well.
>
> Even programs which could be used to understand issues properly, like 'The
> Big Fight'  invariably turn into programs of pointing fingers simply and
> bak-bak-bak-bak-bak....and grand posturing too......
>
> May be our TV media and the newsprint media (referring to those who only
> indulge in elitist concerns, and then shoot off against people-based schemes
> without understanding the logic of using them), should read books of
> development economists like Amartya Sen (he has won the Nobel Prize, so he
> may not be a fool to have won it I believe).There are others in the line as
> well, like Madhav Gadgil (expert on environment), Aruna Roy (RTI), Bina
> Agrawal (issues of gender rights), Muhammad Yunus (micro-finance through
> Grameen Bank, another Nobel Prize winner), Swami Agnivesh (understanding
> about Hindu religion or 'dharma', though it's not that close a people's
> concern according to me, even then), Jean Dreze (Right to Food, along with
> others of course), Kaushik Basu and Abhijit Banerjee (professors of
> economics in universities outside India, who actually have contributed a lot
> to development economics again), Praful Bidwai (who at least is not a fool
> as some of our Rightist friends would like to portray), the innumerable
> NGO's across the country who are publishing some of the best reports on
> various sectors like power sector, health sector, food entitlements,
> education sector, water conservation and management, employment sector,
> urbanization and sustainable development etc.
>
> Or are only the Arnab Goswamis and Barkha Dutts capable enough of giving us
> lectures on issues of 'development'? Reminds me of some IITians (nothing
> short of fools according to me) who were advocating of applying the Chinese
> model of ensuring that technocrats and technology specialists were there in
> the top corridors of power as rulers (like China has in the top rungs of the
> CCP, the famous Chinese Communist Party) as of now.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
>
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