[Reader-list] Media: Stenographer to Power

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Media: Stenographer to Power  By: Sukumar Muralidharan
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Vol XLV No.49 December 04, 2010 *

For a news media that is often in pursuit of the lowest common denominator
of audience taste, the Radia tapes offered a story that had sensation in
abundant measure. Yet, save a handful of exceptions, the story has been
consigned to a black hole of neglect. The news media has increasingly been
seen as a stenographer to power and an instrument for harnessing every form
of dissent to dominant structures. The Radia tapes show that it has been
actually engaged in a more sordid enterprise than stenography – it has been
an active and eager participant in the abuse of power.
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