“The good thing about Youtube is that we have always had a very very active user community that has policed the site from the beginning… so if you go on Youtube you will hardly find… you know you will not find porn or nudity” Gautam Anand, Head of Content Partnerships, Asia Pac/Latin America, Google talking [...]
Indian media often invokes Singapore as an aspirational model of development. Critics have called the country a “corporate-state”, meaning a country where corporate and state interests are joined at the hip (link). Very recently Indian billionaires Anil Ambani and Bharti Mittal have hailed Narendra Modi as future prime minister of India raising fears of corporate [...]
Hindustan Times has carried a series of reports on lumpen elements in India creating a nuisance about various Pakistani artistes in India. The first one is about Maharashtra home minister Jayant Patil’s “claim” that “most people do not want Pakistani artistes” (link). The second is about MNS activists/members forcing a Pakistani comedian Shakeel Siddqui off [...]
Bangladesh’s Daily Star reports that five journalists have demanded the “reinvestigation of all journalists’ murder cases and the arrest of the financiers and planners of the killers”. This was in response to the killing of Manik Saha, an ex-correspondent of The New Age. Read here. “Fresh probe demanded”, The Daily Star, 17 Jan 2009, Link
According to an internal memo posted on the media watchdog site The Hoot, Monika Halan, the editor of Outlook Money has quit over what she called “conflict of interest between edit and management”: But there is an increasing conflict of interest between edit and management and my work ethics do not allow me to be [...]
“And then they came for me”, Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sunday Leader, Link Put this cartoon in your blog/site! <a href=”http://criticalstew.org/wp-content/uploads/depress14jan2009.gif”><img class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-2429″ title=”depress14jan2009″ src=”http://criticalstew.org/wp-content/uploads/depress14jan2009.gif” alt=”depress14jan2009″ width=”383″ height=”365″ /></a>
Raju Narisetti, former editor of Mint, had defended an anonymised polemic by an “IAS officer” about the failures of the government over the war on terror (link here). This had broken out into a war of sorts between the government, Mint, and Business Standard (I would like to acknowledge Raju Narisetti’s blog Romantic Realist, without [...]
Related: “PIL against Ghajini”, Times of India, 07 Jan, 2009, Link Also see: Mary Whitehouse, The Guardian, Link The strip is licensed to use under the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0” and is archived on the web here
A Karnataka journalist, B. V. Seetaram, has been arrested in a defamation case, while he claims being targeted for his newspaper Karavali Ale‘s anti-Sangh coverage (see The Hindu report here). Another The Hindu report stated that he was presented in court handcuffed and shackled, which was, according to Seetaram’s lawyer Shashikanth Shetty, “gross violation of [...]
Times of India Mumbai carried a front page story (Jan 4 2008) about the city’s police “advising” book stores to remove works by Pakistani authors fearing attacks from the right wing parties such as MNS. According to the report, the city police commissioner Hasan Gaffoor, rejected any such directive being issued. When the journalist Ananhta [...]
