A Parliamentary panel has pronounced that media's self-regulation is not working. AJITH PILLAI imagines marketing brains in media houses could be ganging up to beat any threat to paid news.
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
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Slum demolitions don't 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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