Author: Asha Rani Mathur
Editor(s): Asha Rani Mathur
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129108844
Description
The Indian Media: Illusion, Delusion and Reality is a volume of essays to honour the memory of the late Prem Bhatia, an outstanding journalist who was widely admired for his intellectual integrity, courage and commitment to truth.
Beyond this purpose, the book brings together journalists, media professionals, scholars and activists in a series of lively and candid articles that examine various aspects of the media. Today print and TV have set a scorching growth rate: never before have we witnessed such an explosion regionally and nationally. But to what avail? In a society and economy buffeted by simultaneous forces of tradition and modernity, what role does the media play and how does it address the many issues that confront us daily? Has the media broadened its reach only to narrow its focus?
These are a few of the larger questions this book raises, and it does so through some of the most distinguished figures of our times. Veteran journalists and authors Alit Bhattacharjea, Sir Mark Tully and the late Dr Rafiq Zakaria, internationally known activists Medha Patkar and Bittu Sahgal, award-winning writer P Sainatha and Raj Chengappa, strategist K Subrahmanyam: these are only some of the more than thirty contributors to this book. Between them, they consider the gamut of the media, from politics and ideology to cartoons and sports, from development issues to the digital divide, from broadcasting to broadsheets.
Critical and thought –provoking, the contents of this book will be of as much interest to a general readership as to media watchers.
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
ASHARANI MATHUR is a freelance writer and editor with an interest in media. She has edited or authored books on aspects of Indian life and culture as well as art catalogues. She has also scripted documentaries for television.
Contents
THE CONTEXT
EDITOR’S NOTE
A Superior Person, Thorough Professional
Press History in India
The Death of Ideology
Political Reporting
Intolerance, Censorship and Freedom of the Press
Covering Indian Muslims
Women and the Media
The Media Environment
India’s Forgotten Corner
Media and Strategy in the Globalising World
Media and Culture Today
The Media and Population Issues
Who Gives a Damn?
The Gentle Art of Lying Abroad
Media in times of Conflict
Media and Environmental Issues
The Narmada Movement and the Media
Rural Newspaper Editions and Development Reporting
The Moral Universe of the Media
Towards Autonomous Transformations
Unshackle Community Radio
Do We Need Cross-media Regulation?
Changing Paradigms for Media Coverage of Scams
The Media, Business and Ethics
Broadsheets and Tabloids
The Choice for News
Editors and Leaders
The Indian Cartoon
Broadcasting in India
Sports and the Media
News and the Digital Divide
The Press And Proprietors
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES