Andhra Jyothi channel reporters jumped the wall, overcame the resistance by the security guard and entered the exam hall with their cameras. They seized the material being used for copying and called the principal on his mobile, recounts MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR

Neither Ms Dutt nor her fraternity have till now felt the need to venture out of their air-conditioned studios into these badlands and find out exactly why UP farmers are out shouting slogans on Delhi streets. And Mayawati's arrogance is akin to the media's indifference, says RITU PANDEY

Peepli [Live] has ended up trivializing a very grave issue and fails to highlight the real plight of the farmers or the dimensions of the agrarian crisis. The film hardly talks about the factors that may have led Natha and Budhiya to talk about suicide, says NISHANT UPADHYAY

A farmer is about to commit suicide! TV reporters, politicians from the bottom to the top, and finally the agriculture ministry in Delhi all become caught up in the rip-roaring chase that follows. Peepli [Live] is an unsparing take on our tribe, says SEVANTI NINAN. Pix: Natha

Is political representation on so-called national television diverse? Of course not. National politics is represented on television debates by just six politicians from the Congress and BJP. A Hoot monitoring of nine TV discussion shows over one month by MD ALI.

The reported revival of Hum Log, in a new village-based avatar, needs to be contextualised in the contemporaneous and multi-faceted evolution of the electronic media The pro-development debate that gave rise to Hum Log has undergone a transformation, says Prof B P SANJAY

Honour killings seem to have brought out the best among serial makers who are now responding by highlighting these in their shows. Hopefully the sagas of saas-bahu kitchen politics will be put on the back burner, says D MAMTA

On July 8, 2010 many Delhi based news channels went to town with an intercept of a conversation between a Hurriyat (Geelani) leader and an activist of the same faction. Was the translation of the conversation in Kashmiri accurate? Here are two versions of it, one from the Times Now website, the other posted on countercurrents.org. 

PB needs restructuring. But it must first be rescued from the limbo in which finds itself or from euthanasia. The GOM has a bigger task ahead of it than most of its members probably realize, says B.G. VERGHESE