Rajen:
>Thank you for the great
site.
*** You are very welcome. I try to help.
You make a powerful case on the need to make the journalistic
world over in the image of NPR ( National Public Radio, of the
USA).
(For those who don't know much about NPR, it is considered the
'thinking man's radio' here in the USA, an intellectual staple. And
those who swear by it, can easily be deemed higher forms of human
beings. Many consider it 'liberal- a cussword for many, anti-American,
so on and so forth. In fact, if one goes by the results of the US last
US elections, it could be surmised that a majority of the USA takes a
deem view of NPR as a biased news outlet)
But I am still trying to find out if you consider NPR,
neutral ? You said many things, but never addressed that
particular question.
Also, the following remains open:
My question is not about Tehelka -the IJ outfit, but IJ of the kind that Tehelka produces. IJ, which, by its nature, cannot be NEUTRAL as I showed, just like garden variety journalism as BBC 's or NPR's or NY Times'.
>I still would like to see examples
of NEUTRAL journalism.
If you cannot produce any,you know like GWB looking for WMDs in
Iraq, but working on it, just say so.? I am sure Netters will give you
all the time in the world.
c :-)
At 2:15 AM -0500 5/23/05, Barua25 wrote:
Chandan:
Thank you for the great site.
I had a glimpse of Tehelka. You may call me dumb, but I did not know that Tehelka is actually is a Newspaper, although I have heard the name before. Looking at the Newspaper, I could not form any opinion, at least not to the positive side. At least I did not find any attraction that I would like to go back unless some other time I see something which Let me give my comments on 3 news that i saw.
1) The one on North East: I already rejected as it does not contain any beef, just rhetoric. (May be Tehelka's some other in depth news report might contain some real material. But that did not help me.) I need the whole story like NPR would give me.
2) The one of Radio-Why Govt is afraid of: Did not impress me at all. Seems Tehelka is trying to create News out of something which is not news at all. Instead it would have made a great story if Tehelka would have reported just as a story reported by NPR without trying to show that govt is afraid of radio etc. I did not see anywhere where govt is afraid of radio, Just tell the story. People are not dumb, They will understand. Please don't do the thinking for me.
3) I saw another headline story- What is wrong with Delhi males, and why 35% of rapes cases happen in Delhi etc etc.I could not read the whole story, but the headline did not impress me at all. Is Tehelka trying to show that Delhi males are somewhat different than other Indian males in other cities? Again, I would have liked it just as a story showing rape statistics in all the major cities, how these are reported, how many are being not reported, how the authority is handling, which cities are inefficient, how these statistics compare to new York, Bangkok, London, Los Angeles, Rio De Janeiro etc. How many rapes are happening in the rural India which are not being reported at all. - Now that I will call a in depth NPR type of reporting. Once you read or listen, suddenly you are full of knowledge and you know that you have been told the whole story.
Lot of time, you achieve more if you just tell the whole story without trying to judge.
Long time ago, I saw a movie Salaam Bombay. That movie has given us the whole story about Bombay prostitution without trying to judge anybody. You as an audience be the judge. And that movie was so powerful that I feel and remember the scenes even now. Now if Tehelka would have tried to depict the same story with lot of punch lines, probably it would not have impressed me much.
In my opinion reporting should leave you room to think. If reporting try to do the thinking for you, and treat you as a dumb audience, and try to tell you this is happening because of this this and this, then I think the news paper control you. (Yes newspapers have Editorial for that).
Moreover, I am not a newspaper man. I donot subscribe to any news paper and do not read any news paper at all. I simply try to keep track of the bigger picture. I don't want to know in details what is exactly happening in Kolkata street. I already know it. The bottom line is "India is a functioning anarchy" We know it already. Question is why and if it is getting better or worse. If Tehleka's news report will give me clue to that, then I would be impressed.
This is not to say that Tehelka type of newspaper is not serving any purpose. Yes in de,ocracy we need all these. It will make the people involved. But the same can be done by subtle reporting the whole story. That will give more creditabilty to the newspaper in my opinion.
Anyhow, may I wrote more than I wanted to
Anyhow thank you for that great site. All the worlds newspaper at your fingertip.
We should feel so good that we are living at such a great age.
Thanks
Rajen
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From: Chan MahantaTo: Barua25 ; assam@pikespeak.uccs.eduSent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 5:03 PMSubject: Re: [Assam] Again, from TehelkaMy question is not about Tehelka -the IJ outfit, but IJ of the kind that Tehelka produces. IJ, which, by its nature, cannot be NEUTRAL as I showed, just like garden variety journalism as BBC 's or NPR's or NY Times'.I still would like to see examples of NEUTRAL journalism.You can access Tehelka on the web at: http://www.fromallangles.com/newspapers/country/india/tehelka.com.htmBut to read the major articles you will need to subscribe to it. Fee is $ 49.00 per year or $ 10.00 per month.
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