Comments on: Are we deserving of the freedom we seek?

By: guru

guru — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:30:49 +0000

Very sincere and informative article, such articles should reach lot many readers, to at least show them that what proper journalism is and to make the readers that much more repulsive to the daily garbage that is dished out by news media. Your articles provide a easy insight to the world of journalism. We all know that journalism is not very sincere nor professional these days, but I wasn’t even aware of the standards to which a ’story’ can be evaluated against. Slowly and steadily your articles are showing me what those are. Hope these articles of yours reach a ever increasing range of readers. Hats Off!

By: Ramesh Menon

Ramesh Menon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:29:54 +0000

Dear Venkat
Another wake up call from you!
It is now common knowledge that journalists are as corrupt as any other section of society. Many readers and viewers are now skeptical of the press and rightly so as we have betrayed their trust by accepting money from political parties and business houses to write favourable pieces on them. The fact that space was sold to political parties and candidates during the recent elections should make all our heads hang in shame. We have frittered away the freedom we have got and organisations set up by editors and journalists to protect their interests have shown their impotence by remaining silent.

By: Rajesh Ramaswamy

Rajesh Ramaswamy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:04:30 +0000

Rao Saheb
Your article throws up more questions than are comfortable…sigh!
The link to Sainath’s piece was scary…especially because it had the ring of truth to it. Can we call it the IPLisation of poll campaigning? Or did the IPL honchos learn from the politicos? sigh…the only common thread in both is the media:-)
Coming back to the thrust of ur article, while the TN police action was just not on, you can’t have the media slandering people’s reputations and naming them just based on someone’s loose comments. Would the same editor have liked it if we’d named his wife and mom as brothel keepers just coz the drug dealing paanwalah down the street names them? And, less said about some of the other so called newspapers, the better. Anyway, everybody’s on the take nowadays, and don’t even see any wrong about doing it blatantly. Docs openly solicit ‘gifts’ from Pharma cos., Cops take mamool openly from every street vendor and khakhi protection rackets are the norm, sport administrators have to be greased for places in teams and then admin posts are bought, as are votes. Like I’ve said before, the media is not an island; it represents the society it springs from.