BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/05/2009
During the third phase of polling when it was the turn of the Mumbaikars to exercise their democratic right, there was palpable anxiety among the news channels.
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/04/2009
Had Aakriti been in a distant state like Kerala, Assam or Orissa, would media care to highlight the event in the same manner?
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/03/2009
If the media really believed that Varun Gandhi’s speech would cause unrest among a section of the people, did the repeat telecasts of the speech make any sense?
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/03/2009
It is perfectly within the realm of journalistic ethics to pick up such "leaks". But you cannot editorialise in the news story.
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/01/2009
Misleading headlines lead to confusing coverage of Satyam scandal.
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/12/2008
Is there is a need for our channels to carry Pak propaganda? Or to display self righteousness, or to indulge in self promotion on such occasions,
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/11/2008
It is abundantly clear that the Police use the media to cover up unprofessional and weak probes. Should the media oblige whether it involves Jihadi terrorists or Saffron terrorists?
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/11/2008
It was quite evident that the news managers of these channels perhaps thought the ghastly blasts in Assam were happening in a neighbouring country.
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/10/2008
It has been a tight-rope walk for the daily since there is a sizeable section of the middle class in the state which is sympathetic towards the LTTE.
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/10/2008
There should not be separate standards for reporting communal clashes – one for Hindu-Muslim strife and the other for Hindu-Christian violence.
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Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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