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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
Media narratives: Jammu versus Kashmir. The Dainik Jagran published from Jammu took it upon itself in the summer of 2008 to give voice to Jammu's anger, anguish and sense of discrimination. 
 
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. 
 
“We are forever on the road, talking to people about all their movements and little mutinies." Against the backdrop of the current battles against the Posco and Vedanta projects in Orissa,PRIYANKA BORPUJARI talks to SUDHIR PATTNAIK, editor of Samadrusti.
 
When Burning Voices could not find any takers for its documentary on harassment by security forces in the national or local media, it posted the same on the internet As the use of internet for free expression has grown, so have the attacks on the sites, says NINGLUN HANGHAL
 
Nurturing a key media institution in the highly literate and political conscious state of Kerala is perhaps a challenge. To make the inheritance a success, diversify and occupy a key place in the media map of the country is an achievement, says B P SANJAY.
 
The Hoot excerpts a passage from Maya Ranganathan and Usha M. Rodrigues' Indian Media in a Globalised World. Selected and introduced by SUBARNO CHATTARJI
 
The state's advertisement budget has jumped even as criticism of Nitish Kumar's government in the local and national media has slumped. The manner in which facts and figures are being manipulated by the government is a real cause for concern, reports BIHAR TIMES
 
English media covering the World Classical Tamil Conference did not highlight the fact that the meet was an exercise in nostalgia which failed to give a direction for the future development of the language. ARCHANA VENKAT says the coverage could have been more incisive.
 
Barring editors and office bearers of the journalists' union, not a single reporter has been spared the threat calls by unidentified persons in Manipur. NINGLUN HANGHAL wonders who will tell the story of the story teller
 
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