Fwd: The Hoot Newsletter, November 2009
Frederick Noronha
From: sevanti_ninan <sevant...@yahoo.co.in>
Date: 2009/11/2
Subject: The Hoot Newsletter, November 2009
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www.thehoot.org November 2009
The Hoot is a media watch website, the only one of its kind on the subcontinent. It is run by the Media Foundation in New Delhi. This is an opt-in monthly newsletter which alerts you to new stories on www.thehoot.org. Subscribe/unsubscribe information at the end.
MEDIA AND CONFLICT
Media, propaganda and the Maoists
Are journalists so dependent on Kishenji's phone calls to cover Maoist issues in West Midnapore that they are willing to take all kinds of arrogant, humiliating nonsense from him?
Ajitha Menon
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4185&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=2&valid=true
Shopian: rumours and leaks - Part I
The Majlis-e-Mashawarat (MM) fears that the information leaks to PTI "at selective intervals" in the course of the CBI investigation are aimed at advancing "a suitable truth" about the case.
Parvaiz Bukhari
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4168&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=22&valid=true
Shopian: rumours and leaks - Part II
A close examination of the contents of the letter…clearly indicates that it was written with the intention of misdirecting the investigation, with PTI playing along.
Parvaiz Bukhari
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4169&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=22&valid=true
Assam TV channels live off conflict
Their political ownership is reflected in their coverage, since allegiance to a political party colours objectivity and reality.
Monideepa Choudhury
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4156&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=22&valid=true
Media cautiously optimistic about Black Widow surrender
Surrenders by militant groups are par for the course in Assam, which is why the surrender of 340 DHD(J) militants on October 2 merited single-column stories in most papers, with not even an editorial comment in the Dainik Agradoot.
Monideepa Choudhury
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4138&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=22&valid=true
Reporting Assam's ethnic cauldron
Mainstream Amnesia, Part II. Assam burned in the two months under review, but with the exception of the Indian Express and the Hindu there was no analytical reporting.
Sevanti Ninan
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4119&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=9&valid=true
REGIONAL MEDIA
The media creates a Robin Hood
Media savvy Maoist Kishenji uses the media to bargain with the government.
Saadia Azim
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4188&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=2&valid=true
Manipur journos surrender accreditation cards
Threatened by the chief minister's goons, The All Manipur Working Journalists' Union has sent this letter to the prime minister. A hundred journalists also surrendered their accreditation cards to protest being targetted by the state's forces.
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4173&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=2&valid=true
Politicians polarize media in West Bengal
The media was viewing an assault on itself in the light of political allegiance rather than protection of its rights.
Ajitha Menon
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4150&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=2&valid=true
MEDIA ETHICS
Selling coverage and getting away with it
Now that elections in Maharashtra are over, will the Election Commission consider being more proactive than it was after the Lok Sabha elections in the matter of paid news?
A Hoot editorial with inputs from Mahesh Vijapurkar
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4178&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=5&valid=true
RADIO/TV/FILM
Handling Hector
The liberal Left is getting clobbered in the TV debates on Naxal violence.
A Dissenter
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4163&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=14&valid=true
TV9 brings you the floods, live!
One saw several reporters in waist-deep water, waving mikes at people for sound bites. Another reporter on a boat waved the mike for bites from a person in neck-deep water.
Padmaja Shaw
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4135&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=14&valid=true
MEDIA WATCH
Creative editing
Two letters: The Hindustan Times rewrites a letter to the editor on the Centre's intention to launch a large-scale armed offensive against Maoist insurgents.
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4152&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=1&valid=true
When today's poison is tomorrow's wonder drug
Flooded by the media with often contradictory information on health, whom should we believe? There is no escape from the old-fashioned route of resolving your doubts with your doctor.
Visa Ravindran
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4147&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=1&valid=true
LETTERS TO THE HOOT
Participants in the hostage handover?
News channels were, on the one hand, protesting that the government is negotiating with terrorists. On the other hand, they were falling all over themselves to play a role in the hand-over of the hostage.
Anand Bala
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4167&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=17&valid=true
Plagiarism in a column?
Is Neelabh Mishra's write-up--What Caste Is A Nobel?—in Outlook plagiarized? Or do both the article and interview cited draw upon French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of Cultural Capital?
P Radhakrishnan's letter and Neelabh Mishra's rejoinder
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4161&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=17&valid=true
MEDIA LAW & POLICY
When the government swallows up more newsprint than news
What are the chances of opening a national daily and not seeing page after page of advertisements adorned with pictures of preening politicians?
Madhavi Goradia Divan
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4182&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=7&valid=true
COLUMNS
Second Take
Kalpana Sharma
Remembering girls
Giving is something that has disappeared from our vocabulary as the media concentrates on promoting consumption.
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4177&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=10&valid=true
MEDIA AND PARENTING
Namitha Dipak
Recycled and dubbed serials rule
Can we stop for a moment and look at the signals we are sending to our children? Would adults tolerate such a diet of recycled, dubbed and rerun serials each day?
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4137&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=10&valid=true
MEDIA AND GENDER
Pakistan: crossing borders, sharing words, joining the dots
"We are living in tenuous times. This region has one of the worst records of women's rights in the world. That's why it is so important to raise our voices and strengthen our bonds."
Pamela Philipose
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4159&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=25&valid=true
ONLINE MEDIA
When Shashi Tharoor was not amused
My Twitter account, Shashi Tharoor Fake, started on Oct 6, had built up about 100 followers...by Oct 23. Shashi Tharoor's team contacted Twitter in the USA to have my account suspended.
Techgirl
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4181&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=12&valid=true
MEDIA ACTIVISIM
Choosing pen over gun
FROM MILITANCY TO JOURNALISM, PART I. I have always felt more empowered with a pen than with a gun, says Sunil Nath, former publicity secretary of the ULFA and now a writer at large.
Interviewed by a correspondent
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4143&pg=1&mod=1§ionId=22&valid=true
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