mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa :-) --- On Tue, 27/1/09, damodar prasad <[email protected]> wrote:
From: damodar prasad <[email protected]> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: [FEC] Re: A CPI (M) 'plant' in The Hindu? To: [email protected] Cc: "Greenyouth" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 9:05 PM Sanjeev, how long have you been in FEC? Still you don't know the meaning of Fourth Estate. Fourth Estate means Malayala Manorama. Have you not read those "stylan" critiques of Manorama like for example, how Manorama should apply "restraint" while reporting etc. etc... Of course some of the criticism is also shared for Mathrubhumi. And Sanjeev, mind you: don't ever think of responding like this. The "cultural intelligence" may issue verdict for your life -long agenda of CPM bashing. How easy are things!! Now what we infer is that that Hindu has unpaid staff. very profitable. Good methods to become lean in these times of global recession. The Hindu readership will also grow lean. I guess the readership is not constituted by CPM cadres. It is inclusive of liberals, orthodox, post-moderns etc etc.. The truthful way is to hyper link desabhmani to Hindu. or as in print Hindu, they provide syndicated reports/features from Guardian and NY times. Why not syndicate Desabhmani? At least desabhimani is truthful. They are very clear on what they say. {In Journalism school, great editors, great media professionals gave us sermons on "core & cardinal virtues of Journalism" I believe it is still being preached in journalism classes} d. Prasad On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:02 PM, S sanjeev <[email protected]> wrote: amazing that no one in this community which calls itself "fourth estate critique" has responded yet to this piece by one of our most respected veteran journalists! On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> wrote: >From BRP's Blog http://brpbhaskar.blogspot.com/2009/01/cpi-m-plant-in-hindu.html A CPI (M) 'plant' in The Hindu? from BHASKAR by B.R.P.Bhaskar Many long-time readers of The Hindu have accused the daily of tilting towards the Communist Party of India (Marxist) since N. Ram became the Editor-in-Chief. A report appearing in today's edition shows the party has the ability to plant a story in this venerable newspaper. The report, headlined "Krishna Iyer for debate on Central, State police process", is based on an interview with former Supreme Court judge V.R. Krishna Iyer. The report has no dateline. Nor does it have a creditline. The absence of attribution suggests that the report was not received from any correspondent of the paper or from any news agency to which it subscribes. The report identifies the interviewer as P. Rajeev, a leftist journalist. P. Rajeev is a young CPI (M) leader and Resident Editor of the Malayalam daily, Deshabhimani, which is an official organ of the party. Rajeev's report of the interview appeared in Deshabhimani only today. Evidently it was made available to The Hindu before its publication in Deshabhimani. The interview report quoted Krishna Iyer as saying, "I feel that the time has come for a national debate on the creation, operation and control of the Central and State police process. I express this view because I find so much of hot controversy over the Lavlin issue where Sri. Pinarayi Vijayan's name is being made the subject of political imputations." (Italics added) Rajeev interviewed Krishna Iyer after the party launched a campaign accusing the Central Bureau of Investigation of implicating Pinarayi Vijayan, who is a member of the CPI (M) Politburo and Secretary of its State Committee, in the SNC Lavalin case as reprisal for withdrawal of the party's support to the United Progressive Alliance. Deshabhimani featured it as the lead story. According to Malayalam news channels, Krishna Iyer said in a statement today that his remarks were capable of misinterpretation to suit the needs of some political leaders. While reiterating his stand that investigations must be truthful, he said he believed an offender, howsoever high, must not escape punishment and an innocent person must not be penalized. For more on the Lavalin case, please see my commentary "Lavalin developing into CPI-M's Bofors", distributed by Indo Asian News Service. POSTSCRIPT: Justice Krishna Iyer's revised statement, referred to above, appears in The Hindu's edition dated January 26 under the heading "Investigating agencies must enjoy immunity and independence, says Krishna Iyer". It carries a Kochi dateline and is credited to the paper's Special Correspondent. -- Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs. 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