Hindustan Times
You and I may not like politicians, but lets face it, don’t we love the game called politics specially during elections?
The sound bytes, the claims and counterclaims, repeated invocation of the higher power called the “high command” and, sadly, the losers. There is a certain magic about elections. And newspapers had a monopoly on it till, let’s say, 15 to 20 years ago. Read more
(4 votes, average: 2.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Yashwant Raj on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:10 am
Filed under Media · Tagged counterclaims, Doordarshan, high command, ndtv, pictures, politicians, politics, saturation coverag, sound bytes
It’s heartbreaking to follow stories done by others – newspapers or television news channel. That’s the way we grew up, in a two-newspaper town.
It was a matter of shame to be beaten by the rival paper on a story. And we were conditioned to deal with that shame by ignoring the news-break. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Yashwant Raj on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged Arun Shourie, BJP crisis, cnn-ibn, heartbreaking, Hindustan Times, Jaswant Singh, Karan Thapar, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, ndtv, Newspaper, pakistan, rival, times now
