Fawning media coverage of actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction gave the sense of a man wronged. Such news treatment dilutes the severity of his crime, says ARCHANA VENKAT
Media pulled out all the stops to cover the Karnataka Assembly elections, the first state poll in 2013. TV channels predicting and analysing the results were entertaining too, says NUPUR BASU. PIX: Karnataka CM designate K Siddaramaiah.
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Asked about the reason for the JD (S) defeat in Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy angrily blamed the media. MELWYN PINTO says TV channels played a crucial part in dethroning the BJP in the state, even if they did not particularly promote the Congress. PIX: Janata Dal (S) President H D Kumaraswamy
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TV channels jingoistically raised the pitch against Pakistan after Sarabjit Singh's death. UGEN BHUTIA says media should instead have appreciated the government's pro-dialogue stance and advocated peace.
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Reports and editorials on the Supreme Court verdict in the Vedanta case might have missed the mark. ARITRA BHATTACHARYA says a section of the media is even acting as apologist for the multinational.
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Violence in Presidency University provoked the Times of India and The Telegraph to denigrate campus politics. SOURAV ROY BARMAN found this was done by distorting students' writeups.
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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
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Legal luminaries pleading for clemency for Sanjay Dutt can be dismissed as biased. But when channels campaign for Zaibunnisa Kazi, they set a dangerous precedent, says V S HARIHARAN
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The Tamil Nadu-based media exerted high decibel pressure on Indian foreign policy with regard to Sri Lanka. MAYA RANGANATHAN sees this is as a recasting of public space. Pix: the 12-year-old Balachandran
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The media's power remains in its influential information-spreading function, while the police wield real power. MADABHUSHI SRIDHARwarns that media fueled public outrage can instigate extra-judicial killings.
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