Indian Media Bash Blog

This was in response to the write up on Narmada Dam.
There have been a lot of mails opposing Narmada dam and supporting it’s “cause celebre” Medha Patkar. While the ecological damage and the uprooted people cannot be measured in pure monetary terms, I believe that the media needs to take a hard look at [...]

Everyone seems to be latching on to the “fever” of blogs.
CNN-IBN’s efforts are good enough for Sardesai (I must say, with the minimum of bloopers); one or two other mentionables. Times Now TV has another section on it’s hopeless website full of coding errors and blinking advertisements that I feel like puking on the screen. [...]

“Lights! Camera! Action!” This is repeated countless times across the tinsel town where “stars” dance to the tune of the music (or whatever ugly version it is) for the consumption of masses, all in the name of “entertainment”.
Fact is that porn is pervasive in the media and has reached prime time slots. Families watch [...]

CNN-IBN has a fantastic web site- one of the best I have seen. If you ignore the howlers, it loads up in a jiffy and accessible most of the times.
These guys have started running a seperate section on Soccer World Cup. What it remains is a compendium of news from the major news wires [...]

This was in response to their editorial that appeared on May 30th 2006 titled “Get Back to work” They published the edited mail here.
The text of the email is as follows:
This refers to the editorial, “Get Back to work” carried in your newspaper on May 30th.
I understand that the health services have remain paralysed and [...]