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Now that Andhra Pradesh has seen a new dawn with the TDP-Janasena alliance sweeping almost 160+ seats, Eenadu newspaper came up with a stunning editorial that is almost like firing at Jagan and Co with a machine gun, nope, a missile gun.
Though there is a strong editorial team for Eenadu, nobody knows who the team members are till now. For several years, Ramoji Rao himself used to monitor the broad editorial content, though he did not involve himself in day-to-day affairs in the editorial activities.
Once in a while, he used to have a meeting with editorial heads and give them suggestions. He ensured that the organisation used to run smoothly and under his guidance, the paper witnessed tremendous growth.
However, on Saturday, the readers noticed a sudden change in the paper. The imprint line mentioned Ramoji Rao as only a founder. While D N Prasad took over as the editor of Telangana edition, Nageshwar Rao has been appointed as editor of Andhra Pradesh edition of Eenadu. Both the names appeared on the imprint line on Saturday.
Sources said though Ramoji Rao took the decision to step down as chief editor 15 days ago, it took 15 days to implement the same due to delay in approval of changes by the Registrar of News Paper of Inda (RNI). The new editors took charge on Saturday.
One section of the media says the latest controversial order brought in by the YSR Congress party government to file defamation cases against the media for writing negative stories has prompted Ramoji to relinquish editorial responsibilities.
Eenadu, the largest circulating Telugu daily in Andhra Pradesh, played an unprecedented and sensational role in the anti-arrack movement that shook the state a few years ago. When some inspired neo-literate women in Dubagunta village in Nellore district attacked the excise jeep bringing arrack into their village, thus sparking off the anti-arrack movement in the state, Eenadu was the first newspaper to report the incidents in its Nellore district tabloid.
In April 1992, Eenadu carried reports of women fighting against arrack in the villages of Ayyavaripalem and Saipeta. Eenadu is said to have been instrumental in the spread of the movement to a number of other villages through its extensive reporting in the district tabloids. By June 1992 the movement had spread to many more villages in Nellore district. However, until July of that year most of the reporting was confined to Nellore. After the first news item on 18th July Eenadu began extensive coverage of the anti-arrack movement between October 1992 and April 1993
1. During this period several editorials including six front page ones carried constant exhortations to the people to keep up the struggle, and appeals and warnings to the government ban on arrack and liquor.
It is evident that Eenadu sought to present arrack and liquor as the main problem facing the people of Andhra Pradesh. Apart from the coverage of the movement, the paper also took upon itself the task of coordinating and guiding the activists and supplying paraphernalia like a flag, a pledge, slogans and songs. Eenadu regularly published slogans which it encouraged people involved in the struggle to use. It conducted poetry and drawing competitions with the anti-arrack movement as the theme. The newspaper also conducted a contest inviting its readers to design a flag for the movement.
These forums were aimed at bringing together the women involved in the struggle, activists and political leaders. On January 2,1993, Eenadu organised a huge gathering of all such forums in Hyderabad presided by the editor Ramoji Rao, attended by the Governor, the Chief Minister and leaders of different political parties. Significantly, this meeting was not called an anti-arrack meeting but a meeting to promote the struggle against liquor.
Hyderabad: Media baron Ch Ramoji Rao has stepped down as Editor of Eenadu from Saturday. He was Editor for Eenadu , the largest circulated Telugu newspaper, for almost 46 years. The speculation doing round is that Ramoji Rao has decided given increasing complications including Andhra Pradesh government issuing circulars to all departments to file cases against defaming news stories.
Senior journalist DN Prasad has been named as Editor of Eenadu in Telangana and M Nageswara Rao who is so far heading Eenadu Journalism School and Desk is now the Editor of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and New Delhi editions. Eenadu that has around 16.6 lakh circulation and widely read. Ramoji Rao's son Ch Kiron is the managing director of the company, and he didn't take up the legacy of his father.
Ramoji Rao's name still appears on imprint as the founder of Eenadu. Ramoji Rao's Eenadu has been accused by then Chief Minister Dr YS Rajasehkar Reddy and the current CM of AP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for being biased in editorial policy.
The key allegation against Ramoji Rao is that he has been supporting Telugudesam party run by N Chandrababu Naidu. Ramoji Rao and Chandrababu Naidu belong to the same community. It was Eenadu that supported NT Rama Rao when the actor launched Telugu Desam party and the newspaper also given positive coverage during the revolt of Naidu against his father- in-law at Viceroy hotel. Despite facing accusations of political bias Eenadu's brand is considered as most trusted one and the organization is hailed for maintaining editorial standards.
The only evident aspect is that Eenadu is biased for TDP and has been writing critical stories against YSR Congress. After YS Jagan came into power, he ordered the officials to book cases for alleged false news. This has been protested widely by the newspapers.
"Ramoji Rao never writes anything on paper. But he is the first person to announce himself as Chief Editor of a News Paper. No other person did like that before in Indian history. There are such incidents in foreign countries, any way. Now any wealthy man can start a magazine or News Paper and mention his name as Chief Editor. Ramoji Rao is the first person to start that. Business is the only priority for any News Paper owner. Ramoji Rao is not an exception from this. He makes a person write an editorial and makes a signature at the bottom. The readers will be in misconception that Ramoji himself wrote that editorial. When I was working in Eenadu, I never used to agree the idea of carrying editorials and exclusives with the signature of Ramoji Rao when he was not writing them anyway.
Although Hanumantha Rao talked on behalf of me, Ramoji stood on his decision. He kept silent till last moment. But just 2 hrs before the launch of Eenadu in market, he got his name printed as Chief Editor and I was given the slot of Assistant Editor"
The very next day, Eenadu published a full-page article about how Jagan is building palace-like office buildings across all the districts of Andhra Pradesh with their pictures and details of the violation. The cries and wails of the YSR Congress were completely lost in that.
On the 20th of this month, Eenadu published a banner item exposing how the Government spent 20-25 Lakh Rupees every month for the security of Saradapeetam in Vizag just because Swamy helped Jagan politically in the Opposition.
Sources inside Eenadu tell us that there has been a strong editorial team in place for the last thirty years and Ramoji Rao always ensured that systems were in place to carry out the daily operations without his involvement.
They say due to his health issues, Ramoji Rao was not active in the last two months (the crucial election season) in the Editorial work even though he is guiding the team. There was no difference back then and now too.
I walked across the highway only to notice that scores of attendees at the meeting had dashed in different directions to find a bush or a tree to relieve themselves. This en masse urinating session blocked the traffic on the highway. An AP Road Transport Corporation bus too had stopped and male passengers had got down to ease themselves, while their womenfolk stayed on board. It was when I saw the stranded women passengers that I realised that there were no women in the APUWJ meeting. They were not only absent from the dais but also the audience.
Moreover, the women had to watch scores of men all around urinating in the open. The scene was an evocative metaphor for the gendered world of Indian-language newspaper stringers. That it was utterly quotidian, a given, taken for granted, only underscores the embedded forms of patriarchy within and outside the journalistic field that the stringer inhabits and which is exclusively male. There are no women stringers. Yet women haunt this space and shape the masculinity of the men in the public sphere in many ways.
Stringers are present in every mandal (a block of villages) in a district. While they are in urban areas too, the focus here is primarily on mofussil areas. Apart from contributing news to the organisations for which they work, stringers are also responsible for generating revenue by procuring local advertisements, boosting circulation, along with handling any informal work assigned to them by the heads of reporting/editorial bureaus and managements.
What are the anxieties, desires and embodiments of masculinity in the stringer and the field he inhabits? How do women feature in the imagination of the stringer? What are the languages of the precarious and slippery masculinities that the disenfranchised and culturally deprived stringer speaks in relation to the upper caste women they encounter? These are some of the questions I explore by presenting ethnographic observations, documenting everyday utterances and practices in the life-world of small-town stringers in India.
On many occasions, I accompanied stringers while they were interacting with women from different sections, officials, schoolteachers, nurses, wardens, and local entrepreneurs among others. Passing an uncalled-for or lewd remark right after their work got done was common, especially in the case of relatively younger stringers.
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