Archive for February, 2006



Viewer’s delights!! Ten sports revenue -Reality bites!!
The recent Indo pack matches being telecast on Ten-sports as well as DD have affected Ten-Sports on the expected revenue during the match innings-break. DD considers it a birthright to take feeds from other international channels for the match telecasts and yet, manage to get in its own shows [...]

Bryan Adams was here. Everyone knew it. And a huge army of dumb idiots turned out to see him croon. Whatever he did.
The biggest problem with the Indian media is that they wouldn’t know the difference between rythm and lead guitars. Hence, the arrival of Adams was nothing less than fawning over him; almost [...]

Pick up any news paper. Majority of them are owned by Business houses or individuals. They drive their propoganda forward.
Times of India remains a prime example of the new age “profit making enterprise”. It has spawned supposedly a “huge success” and is reaping the benefit of selling away it’s journalistic soul. To be fair [...]

Blogging and Mainstream media

Cross posted on Broadband Blog under Random Thoughts.
Blogging has become “phenomenon”. I was surprised to read that Blog is an extended form of Content Management System; it has been there since long. After Google acquired Blogspot, the popularity became evident.
Overnight, people started blogging on their pet peeves, cats and dogs and their ex girl [...]

Indian Express is undoubtedly one of the best newspapers in India. However, the web version of the newspaper seems to be a bit too much acceptable to dubious advertisers and is even hosting web pages for showcasing their products.
Medicines… not the best thing to promote on the net if you are a media giant when [...]