Tag Archives: Third rate journalism
Listening to P Sainath
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Can media legally violate a prostitute?
Many of us who read newspapers would have seen the furore when B.Lenin, editor of ‘Dinamalar’ was arrested in Chennai a few weeks back, after film actress Bhuvaneshwari’s prostitution racket was busted. Bhuvaneshwari it seems had mentioned the names of a few very prominent film actresses who were involved with prostitution rackets. The next day [...]
Eventhough that time has come
Dear Shri Pranab Mukherjee,
….that time has come
- Signed: Prakash Karat, A B Bardhan, Debabrata Biswas, T J Chandrachoodan
- and a few of us sighed and others,
Good Riddance! said the TOI editorial,
Lal Salaam! said Bloody Mary and,
in the mayhem added that
airports must be privatized.
I dont know why Sagarika says that all the time,
maybe even the media [...]
Vizhinjam…Finally!
Messing up the day’s Hindu, scrambling to find a news item which could possibly rewrite the development history of the state, Mr Prasad and me were surprised and thoroughly disappointed. There wasn’t even a mention of the Vizhinjam tender clinched by the LANCO group yesterday. Ten minutes later when Malayala Manorama deliberately kept the news [...]
Kannur – John Mary’s witnesses
The post is not about Kannur.
The mainstream media which trashes blogs for their “opinionated posts lacking editorial control and thoroughgoing research” continues to surprise me with their half baked truths, thorough lies and embedded ideologies. The difference here is, they are paid to do what they are doing (with access to information) and many of [...]
Thus spake..