Thanks Anil for the post
2008/9/24 anil tharayath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Qureshi's mother, Osama label, media spotlight By Kishore > Budha<http://subalternstudies.com/?author=1>• Sep 19th, 2008 > > http://subalternstudies.com/?p=712 > > <http://subalternstudies.com/?p=712#> > > Zubaida Qureshi (mother of Abdul Subhan Qureshi — ASQ — the named suspect > in the Delhi bombings) spoke to the media. Note the subtle differences in > the presentation of *Hindustan Times *in comparison with *Times of India *and > *Indian Express*. This representation is part of an ongoing narrative that > has unfolded after the blasts. All three newspapers have narrativised > Zubaida through the frames they have imposed on public opinion — the > presumed guilt of ASQ. Her public appearance and appeal to her son is > coopted by the frame of ASQ's culpability. A television channel has now > headlined: "*Is techie Tauqeer India's Osama Bin Laden*" . This post > concerns itself with the specific issue of re-presentation in newspapers. > > Zubaida appeared before the media yesterday dressed in a burqa, and that is > how she chose to present herself to the outside world. Ordinarily this > should be a value-neutral act. The media cannot help how she appears in > public. However, it does become problematic in its re-presentation in the > media and that is an indicator of journalistic and newsroom subjectivies. > Note the contrasts in the presentation of Zubaida's appearance > between*Hindustan > * *Times *and the other newspapers. While *TOI, IE, *and *Hindustan *publish > a picture of Zubaida along with her appeal, *Hindustan Times *crops her > image and blows it up to give prominence to her identity as visible via a > narrow opening in her burqa. Media researchers have demonstrated that the > representation of the veil by media in liberal democracies positions it as > either a threat to liberal societies or as symbolic of female oppression. > <http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ht_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> > > Hindustan Times, Page 1, Del Edition, 18 Sep 2008 > > *Compare the presentation of Hindustan Times (above) with Times of India, > Indian > Express, and Hindustan (below) > * > [image: Times of India, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep > 2008]e<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/toi_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> > > Times of India, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008 > [image: Indian Express, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep > 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ie_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> > > Indian Express, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008 > [image: Hindustan, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep > 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hindustan_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> > > Hindustan, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008 > [image: ToI, P4, 18 Sep > 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/toi_del_p4_18sep08.jpg> > > ToI, P4, 18 Sep 2008 > [image: HT, P5, 18 Sep > 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ht_del_p5_18sep081.jpg> > > HT, P5, 18 Sep 2008 > [image: IE, P9, 18 Sep > 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ie_del_p5_18sep08.jpg> > > IE, P5, 18 Sep 2008 > Mukharji, Arunoday (2009) 'Is techie Tauqeer India's Osama bin Laden?' > CNN-IBN Tue, Sep 16, 09:49 [Online] > > -- > "There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas > are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than > ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the > bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events > manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against > them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... > that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who > would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think" - Foucault > > ANIL > > Anil Tharayath Varghese > National Centre for Advocacy Studies > Serenity Complex, Ramnagar Colony > Pashan, Pune 21 > Phone - 02022952003/4 > Mobile - 09890387877 > email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
