Hindustan Times
How great is the journalist’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. Read more
(18 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged afghanistan, Bombay attacks, Journalist, Kelvin Mckenzie, New York Times, rescue operations, Stephen Farrell, taliban, The Sun, TV journos
I am currently grappling with what we in the trade call a long `think piece’ on terrorism. One aspect of this piece has to do with the definition of a terrorist.
Almost all of us in India were outraged when the BBC refused to call the Bombay attackers terrorists. We saw this as an example of the West’s insensitivity to India’s plight. Read more
(22 votes, average: 4.23 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 8:41 am
Filed under Media · Tagged India, Jihadis, Journalist, Media, mumbai attack, Terrorism, Terrorist
