P. Sainath on ‘Paid News’ in India
Palagummi Sainath a renowned journalist and rural affairs editor of The Hindu delivered the First Maharaj Kaul Memorial Lecture at University of Berkeley, California on April 11. Sainath has written extensively on farmer suicide and paid news, issues that have not been widely reported in the mainstream Indian media. At Berkeley, Sainath choose to speak on the issue of paid news prevalent in Indian media. He particularly highlighted the problem of political paid news (reported for the first time during Maharashtra State Assembly elections in 2009) described as the phenomenon where money is paid by candidates contesting elections to representatives of media companies for favorable coverage. P. Sainath’s views during the lecture and expressed elsewhere point to a grave crises confronting the state of Indian media.
[Photo Courtesy: The Hindu]
Subscribe to the RSS feed and have all new posts delivered straight to you.
Hello
There is no doubt about that your thinking towards any issue is outstanding .
But As we know that india people don’t get the real picture through the mainstream media .
But we believe that journalism is not about the part of any mainstream newspaper or channel , it is all about the reality and the right approach towards the issues .
Myself Amit rai and i just started my vision http://www.easytoact.com which need support , i want to combine and free speech about the nation to bring the change & reform in our country because we all know that India is not in the right way of progress .
So i request you if possible then join our attempt easytoact and visit our website easytoact.com
and join as and express you personal thinking about the issues in our country with solution with more freely .
Please visit us and contact us easytoact@yahoo.com
thank you