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ashok
and where r we headed ?
by ashok on Dec 03, 2010 10:18 PM  | Hide replies

Imagine
by ashok on Dec 03, 2010 08:18 AM Permalink

there is s court , there are lower courts , there is IT DEPT , there is vigiliance commission , there is a democracy and there is a strong opposition and we have seen a scam of such huge propotion.

imagine then what would have happened without all these??? and again imagine how they must have been loting and fooling us since 1947 when all these were not so agile and when there was no strong mass media nor people were so educated???

answer if we dont keep such corrupt people out or under the scanner we may see

Quottorochi as defence minister
lalu as fodder minister
raja again telecom
kalmadi again sports
natwar singh home
harshad mehta finance
telgi as civil supplies
arjun singh education
andrews (bhopal) as chemical and fertilisers
ND TIWARI for women and child welfare
vilas rao deshmukh for civil justice
M gopalkrihnan rbi governor

guniya gandhi president

sharad pawar and karunidhi incharge of anti corruption board

barkha dutt official indian reporter

ndtv official indian media

azzharuddin indian sports bearer

......

and we may go back todays worser then before 1947.

COME ON hit the chappals on the faces of corrupt congress


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ankur srivastav
first step
by ankur srivastav on Dec 03, 2010 10:05 PM  | Hide replies

Take the first step......sack barkha dutt..............please demand sacking of Barkha.......launch a campaign against her. Post your messages in all websites asking her to resign.

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waste cricket
Re: first step
by waste cricket on Dec 03, 2010 10:08 PM
Well said. But the problem is then congress, lefts etc would support her just bcos she is anti-BJP.

She is the worst female journalist of India.

Sold out, rated , laid out, exposed, burnt out, cheap, ......

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My Opinion
Re: Re: first step
by My Opinion on Dec 03, 2010 10:27 PM
She is anti BJP bcoz she is news fixer and has sold her soul to scamgress.

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manoj gupta
Re: Re: Re: first step
by manoj gupta on Dec 03, 2010 10:42 PM
hey..ignorance is ok, she would not have enternained him in 5 star after the debate i guess

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waste cricket
Barka dutt etc
by waste cricket on Dec 03, 2010 10:03 PM  | Hide replies

Journalism is more than business for people like Prannoy roy, Barka dutt, Rajdeep sardesai etc. They are not just sold out, but also laid out.

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ankur srivastav
Re: Barka dutt etc
by ankur srivastav on Dec 03, 2010 10:06 PM
Barkha dutt should be sacked asap.

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My Opinion
Re: Re: Barka dutt etc
by My Opinion on Dec 03, 2010 10:30 PM
all those news fixers who sold their souls should be sacked.

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manoj gupta
Re: Re: Re: Barka dutt etc
by manoj gupta on Dec 03, 2010 10:43 PM
hey..ignorance is ok, she would not have enternained him in 5 star after the debate i guess

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James Bond
Okay......how much u got rediff
by James Bond on Dec 03, 2010 09:58 PM

Okay......how much u got rediff

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banana republic
The Hindu newspaper
by banana republic on Dec 03, 2010 09:01 PM  | Hide replies

In my opinion, The Hindu news paper is biased towards the left and "anti-Hindu". However, it is one of the few newspapers that is probably not affected by paid news disease.

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Desh Premi
Re: The Hindu newspaper
by Desh Premi on Dec 03, 2010 09:08 PM
but the news is more stale and not quite analytical. Moreover, Hindu is some how branded as tamilnadu's local paper

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Desh Premi
Good but...
by Desh Premi on Dec 03, 2010 08:54 PM  | Hide replies

The presentation made by Sainath on the maladies of paid journalism is good. Yes the difference between media and journos is well explained. But the same author should have taken the lead in exposing pseudo journos like Barkha Datt whose murky role in lobbying got exposed recently. What sort of journalists are these?

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Vivek Dev
Re: Good but...
by Vivek Dev on Dec 03, 2010 08:56 PM
right

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vijayan balakrishnan
Half-truths & No-truths Part-II
by vijayan balakrishnan on Dec 03, 2010 08:46 PM

The celebrity news has more readers than ever before. So is the sex-content. There is hardly any doubt that the axis of state-power and the private-enterprises have been doing their best to damage the neutrality of the liberal Media across the globe. Even in the so-called liberal societies, media has caved in to the agenda and the brute power of the twin- evils of journalism – state-power and the private-enterprises. The increasing advertiser-reliance of the media has been the bane. The readers are made to believe half-truths and no-truths as full-truths. Today, readers have little choice about what they should read what they should not. Instead, the media barons in tandem with the state machinery and the business houses deice the news-worthiness. Nevertheless, all is not lost. Admittedly, the slow but steady rise of online social media is going to chip in where the media houses will mix the news with half-truths and no-truths. The paid news will not find too many takers in the days to come as the people today are more aware thanks to the online social media. If the media does not put its acts together, the credibility crisis will dent its already tarnished image. Now, the future of the media is certainly in the hands of fearless journalists rather than in the hands of the media barons.

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vijayan balakrishnan
Half-truths & No-truths Part-I
by vijayan balakrishnan on Dec 03, 2010 08:45 PM  | Hide replies

The developmental journalist P Sainath’s advice to the media students at the Sophia Polytechnic's annual lecture on December 03, 2010 that they should fight some issues as a journalist and other issues as a citizen is sound. But, the problem the young journalists of the country facing as of now is the corporatization of the media. The print media has almost gone into the hands of Media Moguls or Media Barons from the one-time journalists. It is now very difficult to get the media out of the hands of them as the journalism has become a corporate business enterprise where only the corporate war strategies find success. Look at the way self-effacing journals are getting ebbed out in the dog-dog-eats journalists’ world. Recently, the dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky aptly, though uncharitably, said that media subdues the citizens. This is an unpalatable truth today’s media men must endorse to their dislike. But, then this is an issue beyond the comprehension of common readers who are today more swayed by sleaze than by serious issues pertaining to the people.

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Desh Premi
Re: Half-truths & No-truths Part-I
by Desh Premi on Dec 03, 2010 09:42 PM
well said sir...

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vijayan balakrishnan
vijayan balakrishnan Half-truths and No-truths
by vijayan balakrishnan on Dec 03, 2010 08:42 PM

The developmental journalist P Sainath’s advice to the media students at the Sophia Polytechnic's annual lecture on December 03, 2010 that they should fight some issues as a journalist and other issues as a citizen is sound. But, the problem the young journalists of the country facing as of now is the corporatization of the media. The print media has almost gone into the hands of Media Moguls or Media Barons from the one-time journalists. It is now very difficult to get the media out of the hands of them as the journalism has become a corporate business enterprise where only the corporate war strategies find success. Look at the way self-effacing journals are getting ebbed out in the dog-dog-eats journalists’ world. Even in the so-called liberal societies, media has caved in to the agenda and the brute power of the twin- evils of journalism – state-power and the private-enterprises. The increasing advertiser-reliance of the media has been the bane. The readers are made to believe half-truths and no-truths as full-truths. Today, readers have little choice about what they should read what they should not. Instead, the media barons in tandem with the state machinery and the business houses decide the news-worthiness. Nevertheless, all is not lost. Admittedly, the slow but steady rise of online social media is going to chip in where the media houses will mix the news with half-truths and no-truths. The paid news will not find too many t

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vijayan balakrishnan
Half-truths and No-truths
by vijayan balakrishnan on Dec 03, 2010 08:39 PM

should fight some issues as a journalist and other issues as a citizen is sound. But, the problem the young journalists of the country facing as of now is the corporatization of the media. The print media has almost gone into the hands of Media Moguls or Media Barons from the one-time journalists. It is now very difficult to get the media out of the hands of them as the journalism has become a corporate business enterprise where only the corporate war strategies find success. Look at the way self-effacing journals are getting ebbed out in the dog-dog-eats journalists’ world. Even in the so-called liberal societies, media has caved in to the agenda and the brute power of the twin- evils of journalism – state-power and the private-enterprises. The increasing advertiser-reliance of the media has been the bane. The readers are made to believe half-truths and no-truths as full-truths. Today, readers have little choice about what they should read what they should not. Instead, the media barons in tandem with the state machinery and the business houses decide the news-worthiness. Nevertheless, all is not lost. Admittedly, the slow but steady rise of online social media is going to chip in where the media houses will mix the news with half-truths and no-truths. The paid news will not find too many takers in the days to come as the people today are more aware thanks to the online social media. If the media does not put its acts together, the credibility cri

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