When newspapers find a letter to the editor unacceptable should they reject it or rewrite it? The original and two published versions of a letter written by MUKUL DUBE

There is little doubt that excessive media coverage of the delays and corruption allegations against the Organising Committee (OC) is now proving detrimental to the success of the Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010. Should the media be morally bound to postpone its campaign against corruption in the games, asks DIPU SHAW

If the Fourth Estate does not do process reporting consistently, it will remain stuck as ambulance chasers. The worst casualty then is democracy and civic society. The Commonwealth Games scandal is a perfect case in point, says NUPUR BASU.

English newspapers in Pakistan are now divided into two prominent sections. There is 'news of the day' and then there is 'my' news of the day. It's all about personal opinion. And on television it is self-obsessed histrionics. THEMRISE KHAN's blogposts on the media in ‘Dawn'. Image courtesy,'Dawn'.

It has been rather ironic, watching KPS Gill ranting against sexual harassment and sermonising about the “rot” within the system. LAXMI MURTHY on media coverage of the “sex scandal” that recently erupted in women's hockey. Pix of coach Kaushik: NDTV.com

The state's advertisement budget has jumped even as criticism of Nitish Kumar's government in the local and national media has slumped. The manner in which facts and figures are being manipulated by the government is a real cause for concern, reports BIHAR TIMES

Even as belief in the entrenched media in the West sees a new low, it is time to take stock of where Indian media stands. Today's media produces a service that plays to a specific range of beliefs, says JAI CHANDIRAM

How and why did the government agree to settle for an eighth of the compensation it had initially demanded from Carbide? Why was even this absurd sum not distributed promptly among the victims? No questions asked, no answers given. A RAMAKRISHNAN on how the frenzied TV chase missed what was important. Pix: Indian Express.

At the end of the press conference one wondered-- had the two women been from so-called ' mainland India' NGOs would the media have asked the same questions? NINGLUN HANGHAL tries to decode the behaviour North Easterners encounter from journalists.