Today’s Hindu has a rather elaborate coverage of Alan Rusbridger’s (Editor,guardian)visit to India( Link 1 Link 2 Link 3). Appearing alongside these articles is the announcement by N.Ram that The Hindu will have a Reader’s Editor, pretty soon (from Jan13?). So.. who is this Reader’s Editor??.. what is his role [...]
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Who is this “Reader’s Editor”?
Posted in Media on January 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Tamil Culture and all that…
Posted in Indian Politics, Media on November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot of media space devoted to the recent remarks by Kushboo and Suhasini…
The level of intolerance exhibited by the few unruly demonstrators is appalling. Mr. Ramodoss and the PMK(and DPI etc etc) seem to have the gift of generating controversies out of nothing. The violent behavior on the streets is beyond [...]
Follow the leader… China style
Posted in Media on November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
[via RSS@HarvardLaw]
We have seen NDTV’s follow the leader. But, there is an interesting version from China’s official Newspaper “People’s Daily” : RSS feeds for the top communist leaders… Get the feeds from here.
From Wikipedia entry for People’s Daily:
The People’s Daily is the chief mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party. In addition, editorials in [...]
Sid Varad-1984
Posted in Media on August 20, 2005 | 1 Comment »
There is a new blog by Sid Varad and he calls it “November 1984″. The first post is a copy of the report of the citizens group that went into the details of the riots. It is longish and certainly worth a read.(A shorter version appeared here) Make sure that you keep tabs on this [...]
A tailpiece
Posted in Media on August 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Inder Malhotra says,(in the hindu, as a tailpiece)
The most widespread comment on Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee’s latest tantrum in the Lok Sabha is, “Mamatadi behaved exactly like herself.
Himalmag
Posted in Media on August 7, 2005 | 4 Comments »
I came across this wonderful magazine based in Nepal, thro google. Kanak Dixit runs this. It had apparently been down for about an year, due to financial troubles. (I got this info from here . It is re-starting operations and I hope it fares well. The mag is here .
Amongst the archives,I found [...]
Bombay and TOI
Posted in Media on August 7, 2005 | 2 Comments »
While doing my “Why I like The Hindu ” post, I had made an assumption that Bombay is in love with TOI. But, That does seem to be entirely true. Recently, I came across quite a huge number of blogs blasting TOI for this front-page (link to a image posted by Uma) story it [...]
Why do I like The Hindu?
Posted in Media on August 4, 2005 | 8 Comments »
Going beyond TN often means I get few chances to look at the Hindu in the print form. (parts of Kar, Andh are exceptions..not sure about Kerala).It is particularly a problem when you are travelling long distances in trains to places in North India.HT and TOI tend to dominate out there. Historically, I guess TOI [...]
