“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 [...]
The government of India has approved Wall Street Journal‘s facsimile edition to be published in India. This is not a carte blanche for all foreign newspapers though. A case of “case to case basis” it seems. Read Business Standard report here
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 [...]
As a media researcher one looks at how public discourse is being shaped, particularly concerning issues of public policy and how facts, lies, spin, and propaganda is used to further ideologically-driven agendas, all the while couching it is in the language of reason and argumentation. Take the case of public healthcare. Economic-liberals (or neo-liberals if [...]
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 [...]
…there were the print magazines. So before the authorities get all riled up about Savita Bhabhi, they may want to introspect on this 30-year-old news report. From “Porn power”, India Today (December 1-15, 1978):
Related story: Self regulation not good enough, The Hoot. I did another cartoon on the same topic, which I didn’t quite like. You can view it here (opens in a new window).
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This advert for Sunny hair care products (Hindustan Times, Del, 25 Dec 2008, p2), though explicitly not stating that it regrows hair nonetheless presents two pictures — before and after. The copy does say “Keep alive your hopes of healthy problem free hair”. What representation is Bakson’s advertisement for its products trying to promote? That [...]
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