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<title><![CDATA[Brainstorming over paid news]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Parliamentary panel has pronounced that medias self regulation is not working. AJITH PILLAI imagines marketing brains in media houses could be ganging up to beat any threat to paid news.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A tough boss for broadcasters]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[All it takes for regulation to take hold in a wayward sector is a new dispensation not inclined to look the other way. Rahul Khullar thinks the media has gone unregulated for too long says SEVANTI NINAN. PIX TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Demolitions and the English press]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Slum demolitions dont attract press coverage building demolitions do. Because buildings not slums are where people like us live. Where does this empathy go when slums are being demolished asks JYOTI PUNWANI Pix Medha fasts]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Poll news needs the IPL touch]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[All the anchors on D Day were labouring on a flat track with neither turn nor bounce. All the exit polls like uninspired professional bowlers were accurate. Time for a Modi factor to provide the dhamaka edge says AJITH PILLAI]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Patrakar banega IAS ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Journalists often seem to know better than the government how to run the country. AJITH PILLAI says they deserve to be part of a future Indian Advisory Service.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does owning media help]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to get too sanctimonious about media ownership. Family owned media have also had proprietors who were occasionally up to no good. Meanwhile politician entrants are discovering that their media assets  do little for them says SEVANTI NINAN]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Changes wrought by the Times]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A lot has transpired since Robert Knight first editor of ToI put the stamp of his personality on the paper. AJITH PILLAI wonders if future editors will be robots programmed by marketing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taking the Miki out of media]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What if an Indian counterpart of Julian Assange turned the spotlight on the media itself AJITH PILLAI thinks there is plenty to expose and much worse to expect in future.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Being coy about the latest Wiki leak]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Where is the follow up Where are the reactions the questions the editorial comment Is Kamal Nath out of bounds too for our journalists asks JYOTI PUNWANI  Pix The Indian Express]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Maha TV Debate Circa 1943]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[TV anchors are going to boring lengths comparing Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi. AJITH PILLAI says given a chance they would ask audiences to choose between the Raj and Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=10&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6708</link>
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<title><![CDATA[New platforms new growth consolidation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At 6.47 per cent share  of total  viewership programming targeted at children gets more eyeballs than regional movies Hindi news music and sports. SEVANTI  NINAN on significant trends in the FICCKPMG report. Pix Kids TV is a fast growing market. Image credit alohamindmath.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Knighthood no less Sirjee]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Saving the nation daily on TV and doing sponsored stories require special skills that deserve recognition. AJITH PILLAI gives a sneak peak at media awards soon to be up for grabs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Here come the Har Word experts]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As news channels multiply and studio discussions get lengthier demand is growing for journalists to double up as experts. Gear up to play this role urges AJITH PILLAI. Pix source Arun Ramkumar Vidura]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Backwardness the new branding]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The backwardness plank for scoring political points and forging new electoral alliances has been met with guarded scepticism and criticism in the editorials in Hindi dailies notes ANAND VARDHAN]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Show us the way chairman]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A more educated and responsible media would certainly make the world a better place. AJITH PILLAI wonders if having Justice Katju as super editor of all media would do the trick. Pic source Arun RamkumarVidura]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=10&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6675</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Become scribes for our times]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Journalists must gear up to meet Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Katjus exacting standards. AJITH PILLAI recommends a training course devised by the Intelligence 
Bureau.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Legally certified hacks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Journalists will be competent and incompetent rascals and angels regardless of which institutions they come out of. A HOOT comment. Pix Markandey Katju]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Biased police embedded media]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the past cops manufactured evidence while arresting terror suspects. Then how could media unquestioningly report their statements after the recent Hyderabad blasts asks JYOTI PUNWANI.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your news peg may be spiked]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What explains overhyped reports and delusions of grandeur among journalists AJITH PILLAI suggests they are being secretly administered drugs and viruses at the Press Club]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Market logic erodes genuine connect  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Hindi media used to have its ears to the ground but has now lost its connect with the milieu and realities of the heartland says  ANAND VARDHAN]]></description>
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