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<title><![CDATA[How not to cover a major strike]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The magnitude and purpose of the protest was trivialised especially by pink papers. On top of that they unquestioningly put out estimates of loss to the nation says ABHISHEK SHAW.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lost at the mela real stories]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sadhus driving SUVs and complaints about mismanagement deserved more follow up. ARCHANA VENKAT says the foreign media is doing a better job of behind thescenes coverage of the Maha Kumbh.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing the masses]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The media welcomed the UIDs promise of giving an identity to those outside the system but has failed to track its failure to do so. MANU MOUDGIL tracks some of the coverage. Pix Kannan ShanmugamWikicommons.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Different trajectories]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mustafas mostly vibrates with the drama of righteous opinion Singhs tone is more decadent even frivolous. Mustafa  you read for profit Singh you read for pleasure. MANNIKA CHOPRA reviews Durbar and Azadis Daughter. Pix Tavleen Singh left and Seema Mustafa]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rape reportage and the TOI]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The opening paragraph itself exposes the ideology of discrimination that is structural to the TOI. Clearly the papers  concern with regard to rape is limited to the cityscape and women who constitute immediate kin. An analysis by ARUNODAY MAJUMDER]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police sourced rape reporting]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Even as there is a horrific increase in reported cases of rape the media is demonstrating that it needs to learn sensitivity in reporting this crime says ARCHANA VENKAT]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Honest reportage as footnote]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When was the last time we saw the word claim being used when a paper speaks about how a power project will bring reprieve and development to a region ARITRA BHATTACHARYA looks for the PR hand behind some recent DNA coverage. Pix Ajit Pawar]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6364</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Indian media do a fact check]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Soundbite journalism allows those making the charges to get onto a soapbox and have their say without any accountability. But the reader is the ultimate loser as she only knows of the charges but not how much of it is really true says AJITHA MENON. Pix of Robert Vadra NDTV.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exaggerated and sensational]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The reportage in Urdu newspapers was substantially responsible for the after effects of Assam violence. KABIR ALI calls for an end to the untenable theme of conspiracy against Islam and Muslims.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6325</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Fat chance of success]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[People have been discriminated based on looks caste or language.  Now add one more to it  body size. ARCHANA VENKAT analyses a health story which is poorly researched and purely onesided.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6194</link>
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<title><![CDATA[ Notion of corruption deeply politicised ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The author of Annanama assumes the role of an advocate to defend his subject with bizarre logic. Nowhere does the book talk about the corrupt practices of private corporations says ARUNODAY MAJUMDER.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6191</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Know the Northeast People]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The national medias idea of the north east is limited to qualifiers such as exotic remote unexplored unknown. TERESA REHMAN feels that journalists are yet to understand the ethos of the people of other India.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6188</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Sonis story propaganda and prejudice]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The writer has failed to study the factors that are central to understanding how the Maoist conflict affects individuals. Preconceived notions surface at every stage in the story says ARITRA BHATTACHARYA]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do we need to be Angrezi]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Mint Lounge cover story on English as the driver of a revolution is fraught with deep seated dogmas Ability to deal with English is no sure sign of ones knowledge says ARITRA BHATTACHARYA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Politics sports and headlines]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While cricket terminology is often used in writing political headlines other sports are yet to have that privilege. Hockey and chess figure but only as a poor second says ANINDYA RAI VERMAN.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=6043</link>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bofors story  25 years after]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I knew what I was doing when I leaked the documents to you. I could not count on my government or Bofors or the government of India to get to the bottom of this. STEN LINDSTROM explains why he chose to turn whistleblower to CHITRA SUBRAMANIAMDUELLA]]></description>
<link>http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=15&#38;mod=1&amp;pg=1&amp;valid=true&amp;storyid=5885</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Cavalier media prescriptions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One paper suggests carrying anti venom another says carry guns.  Should newspapers be dishing out ill  thought  out advice when they report SHYAM  G  MENON  on the reporting fallout from the Bangalore trekkers death]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Callous misrepresentations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A little self study about cancer by media professionals will go a long way in giving the public the true picture when celebrities as well as mere mortals contract cancer. MANJULA LAL feels that claims and conclusions are better left to experts for journalists are only generalists.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A deliberate hypocrisy ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The media opinion on what the three Karnataka Ministers watched on their cellphones in the Assembly has travelled at great speed while the information available to the public on the episode is scrappy. ARUNODAY MAJUMDER wonders if what the three peoples representatives watched could be called pornographic.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ iNane  The media hysteria over Steve Jobs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jobs and his gadgets commanded more worship than understanding. The English media in India gave a pun filled send off to Steve Jobs but did not provide the reader with a single line of new insight or information. Neither did they reflect on what Apple brought to India says SIDDHARTHYA SWAPAN ROY]]></description>
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