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		<title>Deified in death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do the media waste too much time trying to be kind to the dead? If you go by the way in which Indira Gandhi has been treated by the mainstream English press and TV channels, then probably not.
By and large, the treatment accorded to the 25th anniversary of Mrs Gandhi’s death was fair and largely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/11/17/deified-in-death/</link>
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		<title>The facinating relationship between politicians and TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The relationship between television and politicians continues to fascinate me. Many politicians claim that TV is biased against them. Usually, those who complain are conservatives who feel that journalists are liberals and are therefore biased against them.
In the US, Richard Nixon used to rail against the East Coast liberal establishment which, according to him, dominated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/11/10/the-facinating-relationship-between-politicians-and-tv/</link>
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		<title>Death of the front page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing has happened to newspapers over the last year and though we’ve all noticed it, few of us have bothered to discuss this development.
Which is odd, because you would have thought that somebody would have written an obituary by now.An obituary of page one.
Almost from the time I started out in journalism, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/11/03/death-of-the-front-page/</link>
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		<title>Is it really racism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, journalists were prevented from referring to communities while reporting any acts of violence. At some level, this made a certain amount of sense.
If a man picked your pocket then it shouldn’t really matter whether he was a Sikh, a Jain, a Muslim or whatever. All that mattered was that he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/10/27/is-it-really-racism/</link>
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		<title>The mark of a good Columnist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do newspapers actually put two and two together? We pride ourselves on our ability to take seemingly unrelated events and to put them together so that readers can gain an insight.
But my sense is that most of us fail at this task. This was brought home to me to when I read Maureen Dowd in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/10/20/the-mark-of-a-good-columnist/</link>
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		<title>Is Archie marrying Veronica?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Archie is marrying Veronica? Or he is not. Actually, he is proposing to Veronica’s maid of honour, Betty Cooper. Or is he?
Confused?
You bet!
Some months ago, the publishers of Archie comics leaked to the media that Archie Andrews would finally choose between the two girls who had featured in the comic for decades. He would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/10/13/is-archie-marrying-veronica/</link>
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		<title>Media should lead where politicians have failed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For nearly as long as I can remember, the prevailing consensus in mainstream media has been that liberalization is a good thing. Way back in the 1980s, when Dilip Thakore was the founding editor of Businessworld, he always made it clear that his policy was to back the corporate sector against government because there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/10/06/media-should-lead-where-politicians-have-failed/</link>
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		<title>Give the devil its due</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not the world’s greatest Times of India fan. I have frequently been critical of many of the group’s initiatives. I opposed the shift downmarket which influenced so many other newspapers. I was appalled by the Times during the early years of the century when it was run by brand managers. (Fortunately, editors seem to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/09/29/give-the-devil-its-due/</link>
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		<title>Why Keith Floyd was such a darling!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One measure of how much a man’s life has been worth is how his own people remember him. I was in London when Keith Floyd, the television chef, died and wondered how the papers would treat his passing given that it coincided with the tragic death of Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, who lost his battle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/09/22/why-keith-floyd-was-such-a-darling/</link>
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		<title>The fight to information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How  great  is  the  journalist&#8217;s  right  to know? Over the last week, this subject  has  been  discussed again and again in the West with many journos and non-journos offering widely divergent points of view.
The  provocation  for this debate has been the rescue of Stephen Farrell, a British  journalist  who  works  for  the  New  York  Times. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2009/09/15/the-fight-to-information/</link>
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