A Challenge to Communicators
On Sunday 1 June, the Catholic Church will observe the 59th World Day of Social Communications. The day is significant becuse ‘communications’ is an important and integral dimension of the…
Media
49 Palestinian Journalists Held in Israeli Jails: PPS
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- The total number of Palestinian journalists currently in Israeli jails has reached 49, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said, adding that Israeli forces have…
Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump-The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now
It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones.…
The Bloodshed in Pahalgam and the Revenge-Hungry Indian Media
Twenty-six precious lives were lost when a group of terrorists opened fire in the beautiful Baisaran Valley of Pahalgam on April 22. What remains are the anguish and nightmares of…
The Rise of Digital Media: Surpassing TV in India
In an era marked by rapid technological advances and evolving consumptionpatterns, the rise of digital media in India is nothing short of a revolution. As traditional television, often referred to…
Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech
COPENHAGEN – As AI slop spreads across the internet, concerns about the future of high-quality information are growing. Without accurate and relevant human-generated data, model collapse – whereby generative artificial…
Social Media as It Should Be
BRUSSELS – Mathematician Cathy O’Neil once said that an algorithm is nothing more than someone’s opinion embedded in code. When we speak of “the algorithms” that power Facebook, X, TikTok,…
The Right of journalists to criticise governments fearlessly
The recent remark made by the Supreme Court is a significant event that has revitalized the fundamental rights of freedom of expression for journalists. The core of journalism in a…
From Delhi Gang Rape and Murder to Kolkata Rape and Murder: The same exclusionary media discourse continues
by Dr. Ugen Bhutia and Dr. Maanvender Singh It is no coincidence that the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on August…
Stop Press! Some Editors Discover Rahul And Rest Of Opposition
The following is sourced from social media and attributed to R Rajagopal, editor-at-large, The Telegraph. THE REPORT ON RAHUL GANDHI THAT MANY GILDED EDITORS DID NOT WRITE LAST NIGHT The…
How Fake News Poses a Menace in the News Ecosystem?
"What if I say Mr. Modi sold tea at a platform in Gujarat, or that biryani was served in Shaheen Bagh during the CAA and NRC protests, or that Congress…
Assange’s Release: Exposing the Craven Media Stable
The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of…
General Elections 2024 Results Thoroughly Expose the Casteist Indian Media
The results of the General Elections 2024 have thoroughly exposed the Bania media and its Brahmanical proponents. I have never trusted it but it took 10 years of Modi rule…
Youtubers to the Rescue of Indian Progressives
In the current era of excessive social-media consumption, the so-called content-creator and influencer is king - or queen. Increasingly, we seem to have offloaded our abilities of social, political and…
Confidence In U.S. Media Hits Record Low, Finds Poll
Only 32% of U.S. citizens trust the media to report the news fairly and accurately, while a record 39% do not trust the media at all, finds a Gallup poll…
Speak Truth to Power and Pay the Price!
These are critical times in India’s history: in fact, whether we would like to accept it or not, it is a break or make moment! At stake is the future…
Submission To Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission, NACC: Mainstream Media Lying
Australia was among the world’s first countries for democracy, unions, human rights, female suffrage, and for free, compulsory and secular education, noting that democracy ideally requires an informed electorate. However…
Disinformation, a key instrument of India’s foreign policy in relation to China and Pakistan?
Map Courtesy/ EU DisinfoLab. In 2019, the Lab uncovered a vast network of 265 coordinated fake local media outlets in 65 countries serving Indian interests, as well as multiple dubious…
U.S. Mainstream Media Faces Criticism From Barack Obama And Lindsey Graham
U.S. mainstream media (MSM) are facing criticism from former U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. Earlier, famous journalist Seymour Hersh has also criticized the U.S. MSM. Barack…
The World Wants to Be Deceived
My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him. It’s an old truth that has not changed a…
Pretending democracy
Only recently, the Chief Minister of Goa warned the people of the State in rough and ready terms: ‘I will not brook any criticism of the PM’. In the ever-widening…
Darkness at Noon
When I heard about Ravish Kumar resigning from NDTV's news channel, everything went dark for me though it was a bright and sunny afternoon. I have come to accept this…
46 % of Indians perceive news coverage of PM Modi as biased
New Delhi: A report by Delhi-based think tank Lokniti-CSDS and Germany’s Konrad Adenauer Stiftung finds that 46 % of Hindus and Muslims who follow various media sources perceive news coverage…
Public Opinion in the Digital Era: Neumann’s Spiral of Silence
Civic participation in issues of public importance has been at the heart of many debates in our world history. Philosophers and theorists have attempted to determine how the ordinary citizen…
Suppression of contrarian voices
In the US, we proudly point to the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights that was adopted in 1791: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
Silencing The Lambs, How Propaganda Works
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a 'profound imperialism' and is…
Ten Truths that Can’t Be Published Under the U.S. Regime
The overthrow of Yanukovych in Ukraine in February 2014 was a U.S. coup, and definitely not a democratic revolution there. The U.S. Government and its ‘news’-media lied — didn’t…
Journalists in India Face Many-Sided Threats
On May 3 World Freedom Day ten international human rights and press freedom organizations (including the Committee to Protect Journalists and PEN America) expressed serious concern at the increasing assaults…
Confronting the Media’s Crisis of Trust – Some Candid Thoughts
Lack of trust in the news media is the news these days. The reasons are; rampant misinformation, the rise of authoritarian governments, the dominance of social media, etc. are adding…
The World of Digital Media in 2022
In general, we think of digital media as digitally encoded and machine-readable data that has been created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on some sort of electronic device.…
A Restructured Media in a Post-neo-liberal Framework and its Impact in India
Background To understand the manoeuvrings of media, the framework within which the media is situated during specific paradigms of governance needs to be understood. Historically, there are links between forms…
How Corporate Propaganda Shapes Public Opinion
When journalism became Churnalism - the churning out of massive amount of articles in a relatively short period of time, it turned journalism into a form of corporate propaganda that…
Churnalism’s Manipulation of The News
As one might have expected, the already severe problems of Churnalism have become even worse with the arrival of news’ websites demanding ever faster output. Churnalism is a form of…
Twitter: The first global Godi Media?
We all know by now, the all too familiar term Godi Media. A media which has been purchased by a particular economic or ideological entity either explicitly through a formal…
Communication and Capitalism
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Many people would quite correctly argue that the conceptual pair of “communication and capitalism” are more about capitalism than communication and the media. While…
AP reporter challenges US lies about Russian war preparations
Matt Lee — the AP’s senior member of the State Department Correspondent’s Association and now virtually the lone member who demands that the State Department not lie to the press…
Journalism in Existential Crisis
When the Wire and Cross-current broke the news of the Assam Chief Minister's family having been involved in a landscam in three different areas of the state,turning govt. land allotted…
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Hi! I'm Aniketh Brian Madhok, an 18-year-old boy with a smiley face, little mischevious, fun loving and always polite with others. Living in the metropolitan city of Kolkata in West…
Indian media is a slave to the ruling class
The job of the electronic media should be to make people aware, but due to TRP, news channels nowadays prefer to present any news in a sensational way and this…
The rise of ‘Godi Media’ in the U.S.!
In a recent exchange with a leading publisher of an ethnic Indian newspaper, I inquired why he hasn't carried a news item on the Indian Americans protesting before the United…
Revisiting the Propaganda Model in the age of Social Media
A Review of Andrey Mir’s “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers.” While there are several books analyzing the impact of social media on society, Andrey Mir’s book “Postjournalism and…
A Right-Wing German News Conglomerate Bought Politico for a Billion Dollars
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young At the end of August 2021, Germany’s right-wing Axel Springer bought the US political magazine Politico for about $1bn (€850m) – the most expensive…
Alternate Media in the USA
I would like us to give serious consideration to alternative media in the USA. I know a lot of us watch/listen to NPR, Pacifica Radio, Link TV and Democracy now.…
We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
My talk at the International Festival of Whistleblowing, Dissent and Accountability on May 8. Transcript below. https://video.emergeheart.info/videos/watch/0e680370-0f59-4110-aaca-d0d0c228f47f?start=0s I wanted to use this opportunity to talk about my experiences over the…
They too are journalists who don’t find time at the prime time
A ‘well known’ Hindutva protagonist masquerading as journalist passed away yesterday resulting in a message of ‘condolences and ‘tribute’ right from the Prime Minister and Home Minister to ‘progressive’ ‘liberals’…
Will the Four Horsemen of the Media Continue to Trample Us?
The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse — Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump — have ridden roughshod over us this past half-century leaving their hoofprints on…
The Captive Media in the USA
“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer A media system set up to serve the…
American trust in the mainstream media hits an all-time low
New data from Edelman shows that American trust in media is at all-time low. While 56% believe that journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead, 58% think news organizations are…
The Captive Media in the USA
“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer A media system set up to serve the…
Role of Editors in News Media
Bhaskar Parichha, a senior journalist, explores the role of editors in swaying public opinion. In recent years the increasing influence of the media has changed the shape of Politics all…
Petitions, Probes and Rupert Murdoch
Australia has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media. One, currently in London’s Belmarsh Prison, is facing the prospect of extradition to the United…
Gagging the Media in Cases of Sexual Assault and Harassment
The rising incidence of gag orders by various powerful accused men in sexual assault and harassment cases has been of immense concern, especially because of the manner in which it…
TRP racket: How media is reluctant to talk about its own corruption
The media, which holds the flag of uprightness, is now reluctant to talk about the dirt defacing its own image. The immediate context is the claim of Mumbai Police…
Democracy or ‘Kakistocracy’?
The journalists, critics and social media writers today are facing false cases foisted by the State and Police. A senior journalist is fighting a sedition case for criticising the Centre’s…
TV journalism in India: Crying for TRP or Truth
The recent observations of the Hon’ble Supreme Court towards the functioning of media in India seem to be an urgent need of redefining and restructuring the electronic media in accordance…
When Journalists Were Loved, Feared & Respected…
When I was a boy I once heard my father wondering to my mother why “a day did not have more than twenty-four hours”. I know it is difficult to…
Digital Polarization and the Religion of Profit
by Sandeep Pandey and Shivi Saba What purpose does a religion serve? It serves you the meaning of living a life in the right way. Lately, the sentiment around the…
The Double Siege – News Media in the Time of Covid-19
Conjuring consent in a post-factual, post-truth scenario Freedom of the press is under siege: from without by the State and its thriving band of storm troopers and from within by…
How Billionaires Took Over Liberalism and Destroyed It
They’ve done it via the ‘news’-media — their propaganda-operations. So, this is about how billionaires do that; how they’ve done it. Ever since at least the time of Thucydides in…
The plight of Journalists in Bangladesh in the age of Covid-19
Eidul Azha, a sacrificial festival for the Muslim, is due in Bangladesh on Saturday and many other countries. It is one of the two largest Islamic festivals. The majority Muslim…
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