http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:57:57 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2006/10/02/234917.php#comment-23766 sumanth: as you know am always leery of painting a whole group with one broad stroke 23766@desicritics.org Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:57:57 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/02/234917.php#comment-23764 If we accept Main Stream Media as "whole sale pimp activity", then thats really great. But, we need to tell this to common people as well about what these pimps are up to. If someone starts an anti-media newspaper, TV channel, s/he will become highly successful. Bloggers must come together to create a blogger's newspaper and blogger's TV Channel and it has to be a company according to section 25 of comapnies act (non-profit company). 23764@desicritics.org Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:43:00 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/02/234917.php#comment-23761 CV: am not sure about this: <i>then let us please withdraw all the privileges that are extended to them in the faith that they act as a social guardian.</i> who has given the media this guardianship? if it is us...then it is misplaced...they are no more social guardian than the doctors and hospitals as (our) medical guardian! as i hinted -- the onus is ultimately with the discerning reader... (e.g....when we know they sell editorial space...it is not too hard to put two and two together and figure out where their leanings are...whether they come clean with financing or not) 23761@desicritics.org Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:43:09 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/02/234917.php#comment-23757 Thanks temporal for your nice words. Media as a business? I have absolutely no problems with that view. But if that is what they aspire to be, then let us please withdraw all the privileges that are extended to them in the faith that they act as a social guardian. We will treat them as just another service industry and extend same privileges and restrictions. Slant can be there is opinions, but not in selection of reporting. Of course, you may say that the editorial has a right to decide its priorities considering the constraints of space and airtime. Sure, they do. They reason I asked for the source of revenues is to know whether the priorities are guided by economic reasons. If exclusion of news is due to bona fide reasons, then I am sure they should not have any problem in letting know their revenue break up. 23757@desicritics.org Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:27:34 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/02/234917.php#comment-23742 CV: welcome to DC...nice post...right after that ToI post on similar theme media has a slant and it is not above criticism...and as i said in my response to the other post...blogging is a great <i>equalizer</I>...blogger being used in the sense of easy access for the propagation of alternative perspective but here is a sobering thought....arent we a tad too gung ho in our demands?....why should media be above the pedestal set for any other business?...,yes, it is but a business... i think a greater onus should be on the discerning reader/viewer we have access to all the slant and tripe...we should be better informed 23742@desicritics.org Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:56:02 EDT