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[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Dear All,    I do not know how many of you have read the article by veteran
journalist, Shri. Kuldeep Nayar in Deccan Herald on 1st Aug.2009,on the role
of media in present India, how the media, both print and visual media were
totally business houses during the elections and also later to give spins
for their masters in politics.He expresses his anguish at the lack of
verification of "news" and the hurry to be first to be on air with invented
news and also the media which took to canvass overt and covertly for the
parties for a consideration of pay backs.

 In another news in print media, it was turn of demonstration of how EVMs
could be managed to tamper the end result of an election, with a trojan
programme and the results of a "free and Fair" poll could be turned in to a
farce.

Take it please with a pinch of salt ofcourse.!

Regards,

Rajen.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Murali V <murali.chalam at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Rajen.