It's simple and doable, but it is deliberately being avoided: N. Ram N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, on Tuesday emphasised the need for an internal news ombudsman in the press and the news channels in the country. He was delivering a lecture on ‘Media ethics and police-Media relations' organised here by the Mumbai police. “Unfortunately, no one else has taken this up [except The Hindu which has a readers' editor] because...
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Speculators at work by Alok Ray
If the price rise is due to production shortfall, how does one explain the near doubling of the price within a few days? The sharply rising onion prices have raised the suspicion that speculators are manipulating a shortage situation. First, a few facts. In retail markets, onion prices have soared from Rs 10-11 per kg in June to as high as Rs 70-80 on Dec 21. Even more significantly, prices zoomed by...
More »SAMC shocked over ‘Radiagate'
The South Asian Media Commission's (SAMC) India Chapter on Monday viewed with “shock and anguish” the recent disclosures of high-profile lobbyists seeking to manipulate Media coverage to serve the interests of sections of the corporate sector. Particularly disturbing were the moves to use Mediapersons for help to influence decisions by the government and leadership of the ruling dispensation on crucial issues such as the composition of the Union Cabinet, the SAMC...
More »Of luxury cars and lowly tractors by P Sainath
Even as the Media celebrate the Mercedes Benz deal in the Marathwada region as a sign of “rural resurgence,” the latest data show that 17,368 farmers killed themselves in the year of the “resurgence.” When businessmen from Aurangabad in the backward Marathwada region bought 150 Mercedes Benz luxury cars worth Rs. 65 crore at one go in October, it grabbed Media attention. The top public sector bank, State Bank of India,...
More »TN Ninan is president of Editors Guild by K Balchand
The Chairman and Editorial Director of Business Standard, T.N. Ninan, has been elected president of the Editors Guild of India which, in the wake of the Radia tapes, called upon editors to place integrity above all other considerations. Commi Kapoor of Indian Express was retained as general secretary at the annual general body meeting held here on Friday. Suresh Bafna of Nai Duniya was elected treasurer. Mr. Ninan succeeds Rajdeep Sardesai of...
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