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<title><![CDATA[Create forums not battlegrounds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The present situation demands that national media cover the Gorkhaland movement as comprehensively as the Telengana movement is covered. It  should take responsibility to get voices heard at the national level says UGEN BHUTIA Pix Bimal Gurung]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media must shun rabble rousing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The jingoism of TV channels in response to incidents on the Pakistan border was unwarranted and irresponsible. PRAMOD KUMAR says the hysterical coverage violated the basic tenets of journalism. Pix The Times Now exclusive with General Musharraf]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Democratic nations can be brutal too]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the hounding of Julian Assange the spirit of dissent is the biggest casualty. The media fraternity should rally strongly behind this messenger of truth says SHIVNARAYAN RAJPUROHIT.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why do they hate us]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The attacks on journalists on Saturday in Mumbai left media persons shaken not so much because of its unexpectedness or its brutality but because of the naked hostility towards the media says GEETA SESHU]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kashmir media caught between rebels and state]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Even as militant groups have been dictating terms to journalists on what to write the State is not far behind in telling them what not to write. Its time journalists fought against pressures and favours says FAHAD SHAH.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When The Hindu chose to remain silent ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A significant news item that appeared in two major newspapers was found missing in Southern Indias most read paper. SUDEEP K.S. sees a contrast in reporting Sri Lankan war excesses.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Vigilante Network ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[quotKony 2012quot has snowballed into a video watched by millions across the globe in a short amount of time. USHA M RODRIGUES explores how social media is quickly taking on new roles.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian press buries truth at the border]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Then there are the Chinese quotincursionsquot stories   the most potent and the fountainhead of all Sinoscare media motifs in India. These stories liberally peppered with alarmist words like quotaggressionquot quottransgressionquot quotencroachmentquot and the like follow a familiar pattern says DEBASHISH ROY CHOWDHURY]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Victims  of the medias terror investigation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Investigators are yet to identify the real perpetrators of the Delhi High Court blasts but the media have revealed almost everything including the entire game plan and identities. ABHISHEK UPADHYAY asks at what stage of an investigation should the media begin to mention names.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghans take to SMS journalism]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Radio Azadi is facilitating citizen journalism in strife torn Afghanistan. Because the service is anonymous and discrete women are also able to correspond actively with Radio Azadi. They wanted to know why the Taliban burnt down schools. PAROMITA PAIN reports]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media escorts Rajkhowa home]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As freed ULFA chairman Arabind Rajkhowa returned home to a rousing reception and intense coverage by the media veteran journalists recalled a time when such reportage would have been frowned upon. TERESA REHMAN trails the media response]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media raises Muslim terrorists bogey again]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The baseless reporting by almost all the newspaper from this city has spread an atmosphere of suspicion in Muslim majority areas. MAHATAB ALAM questions the basis for these reports]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting Ayodhya  3]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The minority perspective got virtually no space in both the Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph in the run up to the Ayodhya verdict. Considering the two crore two lakhs Muslim population that West Bengal has it was surprising says AJITHA MENON. Pix Anandabazar Patrika Page 1on October 1.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=22&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=4897</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting Ayodhya II ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In Hyderabad both Eenadu and Deccan Chronicle bent over backwards to maintain balance. One defining feature of Eenadu was the effort it took to present both the sides for almost all stories. PADMAJA SHAW and NAGAMALLIKA G examine Ayodhya coverage  in the leading English and Telugu dailies.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=22&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=4878</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting Ayodhya  I]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gujarati newspapers used treatment rather content to indicate their pro  verdict stance. Did TOIs well meaning communal harmony efforts reaffirm stereotypes Our series on Comparative Coverage begins with the Ayodhya coverage in Gujarat. A HOOT survey. Pix The Sandesh front page on Oct 1]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=22&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=4873</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting in times of communal strife   3]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Comments and editorials that followed the Amarnath land allocation dispute revealed a desire for communal harmony and a need for calm deliberation rather than rabble rousing. SUBARNO CHATTARJI takes a stock of the media reactions around the time of the dispute]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting in times of communal strife   II]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Media narratives  Jammu versus Kashmir. The Dainik Jagran published from Jammu took it upon itself in the summer of  2008 to give voice to Jammus anger anguish and sense of discrimination. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting in times of communal strife]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two years after Amarnath erupted and caused a lasting schism between Jammu and Kashmir The Hoot looks at the role played by the media in the state.   Did they rise above the strife  or did they opt to cater to their home constituencies    Did they try to douse flames or did they feed them  Part I Stoking Fires. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=22&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=4780</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Truth buried under inspired reporting]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A report that has no quotes on behalf of the accused and names although as an alias a rape victim violates basic journalistic ethic. SANKAR RAY comments on the policeed reporting that some sections of the media indulge in.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Journalism and the words of power]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The real tragedy of the medias surrender to the state is that journalists have stopped reading books especially history books. Speaking at the Fifth Al Jazeera annual forum ROBERT FISK laments the state driven semantics that take over and alter grave debates]]></description>
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