[Reader-list] Media news from South Asia... Green Hunt, Carbide, Arundhati contempt

Mon Jun 21 16:10:52 IST 2010

>From http://www.thehoot.org/

Free Speech Hub: Operation Green Hunt's Urban Avatar:
Distortions,falsification and a witch-hunt.. http://tiny.cc/yqrc2

Wrong bone:Why did the govt agree to settle for an eighth of the
compensation it had initially demanded from Carbide?
http://tiny.cc/5uh0v

Free Speech Hub: Contempt punishment to Arundhati Roy ‘black spot in
judicial history'. http://tiny.cc/lnnd4

Free Speech Hub: Media under assault in Bangladesh. http://tiny.cc/o7uqk

When the hungry go on hunger strike: Why can't the media keep up a
relentless coverage on the unseen disaster of
hunger.http://tiny.cc/zat7h

'Indian English' writing -- Indian enough? What constitutes 'real'
Indian English? http://tiny.cc/d6zqy

Is this equality? A response to Vir Sanghvi: Sanghvi’s main purpose is
to deflect attention from the uproar. http://tiny.cc/2jrhc

Mamata's media carrots: Colourful tales of compromised reporters in
Kolkata. http://tiny.cc/6ths6

Freelancing -- freedom at a price: Independent perspective -- that
dangerous 'free' -- and losers go hand in hand. http://tiny.cc/6ths6

Are NGOs from the North East suspect for the media? Decoding the
behaviour North Easterners encounter from journalists,
http://tiny.cc/qli8x

Naming journalists in Goa's drug mafia nexus: Is the IANS story based
on the police investigations, or allegations?http://tiny.cc/829q3

Media coverage portrays Goa as a rape capital: It gives the impression
that this is the biggest problem Goa faces. http://tiny.cc/qli8x

In the dollhouse: Why fashion is the first casualty when trendy
vocabulary is used to describe an offender? http://tiny.cc/002r6

Slur on Imphal-based media? Have the local journalists too succumbed
to the inherent sentiments of ‘us’ and ‘them’? http://tiny.cc/6yd87

Free Speech Hub: The Constitution and the press. http://tiny.cc/brobc

Free Speech Hub: How the Press carved out freedom of speech in India.
http://tiny.cc/xma91

Free Speech Hub: Congress ‘Rajneeti', cut & paste. Tracing the
Congress Party's record on censorship. http://tiny.cc/vkb6j

Varsha breaks the silence: Varsha talks about her fight against
domestic violence. http://tiny.cc/79ilx

Human rights versus self defense: Do defensive actions like blockades
strengthen any political stands? http://tiny.cc/bjy2u