http://www.thehoot.org/web/images/top.jpg http://www.thehoot.org/ 140 The hoot The Hoot http://www.thehoot.org en-us COPYRIGHT @ 2007 thehoot.org ALL RIGHTS RESERVED http://thehoot.org/ 10 Letter to the Hoot Every small dispute, be it a fight between youngsters, is being portrayed as a border row. Reporting in the local channels is lowering the taste and refinement of the people of Assam and the neighbouring states, writes MOLOKHU BORBORUA. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4794 Letter to the Hoot In the homes that the dubbed version of Air Force One was watched, many must have gone to bed with the image of another gun totting fanatic with a barely coherent agenda evoking Allah. There are insidious ways in which the Islamic motivation is slipped into our subconscious by the different media, writes SMITA SINGH http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4713 Letter to the Hoot Express reporter Vijay Pratap Singh~s death on duty clearly exposes the very thin line that divides the reel and the real world of Indian politics and the conditions under which journalists work. SOURAV ROY BURMAN says the criminals behind the blast must be unmasked. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4703 DNA, Saamana, Prahaar and Sakaal all used an original map from a blog without so much as a by your leave. A letter to the Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4686 The media is busy ~analysing~ the PM~s performance after the press conference on May 24, 2010. Perhaps, we should analyse the media performance too, writes SANJAY RANADE in a letter to The Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4580 Letter to the Hoot The mass news media was clearly used by the politicians to convey messages. They only listened to the loudest voices, says SANJAY RANADE. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4522 Letter to the Hootâ�'responding to Sheetal Vyasâ��s rejoinder on why women watch some kinds of soaps. "I was appalled at what I saw on Laado says HARMANPREET KAUR." http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4457 Letter to the Hoot It is not that they were not aware of the dishonesty of media houses earlier. But no politician was interested in raising these issues because it did not hurt their interests, says MADHAVI SHREE. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4400 It is really time for the Editors Guild and all other professionals and news channel managements to silently march towards India Gate in Delhi and take a vow that they will give the SS company a long holiday to focus on other issues that affects the public. B P SANJAY’s letter to the Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4352 I just wonder if the media is being biased against BJP. Here are two stories begging to be highlighted as they represent a major shift in the BJP stance. A letter to the Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4268 Letter to the Hoot The Hindu gives space to two versions of an assault on an all women fact finding team Narayanpatna, on the same day, with different datelines and sources, says HIMANSHU UPADHYAYA. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4254 Did Mr. Menon meet the same man, who you now claim was electrocuted, not burnt in oil? We would like to clarify, and we would have known, had the fact finding team leader helped us meet the elusive oil dipped man. NEELESH MISRA responds to PUDR’s letter to the Hoot and says Himanshu Kumar’s assertions were not backed by facts. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4251 Letter to the Hoot This inability of the newspaper to carry the response from the affected parties is tantamount to suppressing facts which are relevant to the issue raised by Neelesh Misra. PUDR on Mishra’s accusations of fiction. Pix Himanshu Kumar http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4238 News Channels on the one hand are protesting that the government is negotiating with terrorists. On the other hand, they were falling all over themselves to play a role in the hand over of the hostage. Anand Bala writes a letter to the Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4167 Is Neelabh Mishraââ�¬â�¢s write up What Caste Is A Nobel?ââ�¬â��in Outlook plagiarized? Or are both the article and interview cited drawing upon French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieuââ�¬â�¢s concept of Cultural Capital? P RADHAKRISHNAN’s letter to the Hoot alleging plagiarism from an interview given by him, and NEELABH MISHRA’s rejoinder. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4161 What the Indian Express carried in its Letter of the Week column bore little resemblance to the letter the writer had sent. GAUTAM NAVLAKHA complains to the Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4082 Letter to the Hoot TOIâ��s appalling article on the effect maids have on men and marriages shows insensitivity and class bias, says MAITREYI MISRA http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3924 This opens up television reportage to the worst kind of manipulation possible. By all means, hang the guilty, but don"t perennially fall for the victimhood syndrome, says NILOVA ROY CHAUDHURY http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3805 Those could be his opinions but they fail two important tests. One, they fail to take cognizance of facts. Two they fail the test of neutrality. ANAND KUMAR, in a letter to the Hoot. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3741 If the Indian media ignores the facts, distorts the truth and draws parallels with Mumbai (e.g. Israel has a right to self defence) we will be missing the truth by much more than a mile! A letter to the Hoot from ANAND BALA. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=17&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3572