-The Indian Express Discord between Team Anna and media brings a crucial and overdue reality check for both Unhappy with the cameras apparently turning away from their cause and reporting the dwindling numbers at their venue, several Team Anna members and supporters have now declared the media biased and complicit with power. Some in the crowd at Jantar Mantar even heckled Journalists. The Broadcast Editors’ Association sought, and got, “an immediate apology...
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Dalit women walk bare foot to show respect to 'upper caste' villagers in Rajasthan-Raksha Kumar
-Tehelka The district administration in Karauli has undertaken steps to ban the practice after Change.org's Video Volunteers brought the discriminatory practice into light When 39-year-old Sunita Kasera, a Journalist for Video Volunteers, was sipping tea one hot afternoon in Dangariya village, eastern Rajasthan, she noticed something peculiar. Many women, who left their houses with their footwear on, would abruptly remove them in the middle of the road and wear them again after...
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-The Times of India A report released by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said activists are threatened and attacked both by "Indian authorities and Maoist insurgents, who undermine basic freedoms and interfere with delivery of aid in embattled areas of central and eastern India". In its 60-page report — Between Two Sets of Guns: Attacks on Civil Society Activists in India's Maoist Conflict — the rights body documented cases of...
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-PTI Private news channel scribe Gaurav Jyoti Neog, blamed by RTI activist Akhil Gogoi for allegedly instigating the molestation of a girl in Guwahati, on Sunday requested the management of the channel to relieve him of his duties till he was cleared of the charges. "There are allegations levelled against me that I orchestrated the molestation on the girl on GS Road on the night on July 9. I strongly deny and...
More »Media, it’s time to heal thyself-Charles Sampford & Ramesh Thakur
-The Hindu Journalists need to adopt a set of integrity measures in order to police the boundaries between the market and political power Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and the world’s wealthiest woman, is seeking three board seats following her purchase of 18.7 per cent of Fairfax which owns most papers in Australia not controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd. There has already been considerable upheaval in two of the Fairfax papers...
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