Ten years ago Phaneesh Murthy successfully used the willing business press to resurrect his career spectacularly over the course of a single calendar year. They eagerly helped him  rebuild a reputation tarnished by a sexual harassment charge, as this article in the Hoot documented. How will the business press treat him this time around, we wonder.  

 A reader writes, "TV pe breaking news haaye re mera ghagra haaye," sings Madhuri Dixit (that's the latest item song). How aptly it captures the state of television news today, doesn't it?

Three staffers  of a newspaper in Tripura, Dainik Ganadoot, were killed on Sunday after armed men attacked the paper's office.  According to police, the motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the office  at the Palace Compound at about 3 pm and stabbed a proof reader and a driver on the ground floor before proceeding to the first floor where they stabbed the office manager. As it was Sunday afternoon, only a reporter was present at the office.  He fainted on seeing the assailants stabbing the two men on the ground floor and was left unharmed.  (CNN IBN, .. more>>