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 consider that when you give the
whole story in IJ without any judgment like those of NPR (All
Things Considered) these IJ become NEUTRAL news stories because you are not
trying to take any side. That the Right Wing is trying to show that
NPR is liberal does not make NPR liberal. This simply shows that the Right Wing
is afraid of the whole story. It is the same Right Wing who is trying to
voice for Creation Theory against Darwinian and take America back to
medieval age . NPR is out and out NEUTRAL. I think even during the Iraq War,
NPR never voiced against the war. It simply showed the whole
stories. But Right Wing is there to change definitions of all things good
and they are using the GWB's twisted logics to do that , and more than 50% dumb
Americans are falling for it. BTW
I donot consider America to be a NEUTRAL country.
I did not find Tehelka's news
stories to be like those of NPR. The 3 stories I showed are one sided just to
create sensation. Those are not NEUTRAL IJ stories. NPR is. I donot
agree with you that IJ, by its nature, will have to one sided. That I will
say Tehelka version of IJ. To be NEUTRAL, they need to follow NPR
which I showed with several examples.
BTW in my opinion, news should be
free to all. How many people in India will be able to afford detail news reports
of Tehelka? Like the ancient Vedas, these will be read only by the rich modern
day Indian 'Brahmins'. What good that will do to Indian democracy.? Again the 2%
rich who donot have time to think for the poor anyway.
Rajen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Again, from
Tehelka
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
---- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Barua25 ;
assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Again, from Tehelka
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.
You can access Tehelka on the web at: http://www.fromallangles.com/newspapers/country/india/tehelka.com.htm
But 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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