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Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment
and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further
environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa
http://goanvoice.org.uk/miningpetition.php
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>Augusto Pinto, Floriano Lobo and Anil Dessai are right. Advertisers and those
>who fund their TV channels are more important to these journalist businessmen
>than the public and cause of the public at large. THE FOURTH ESTATE especially
>the electronic media has become a properous business and they have forgotten
>their REAL MANDATE. There is a need for a FIFTH ESTATE to regulate this fourth
>estate.
Sample this: Channels do opinion polls. Is this not fooling gulligle mobile
owners? Firstly, the charge the SMS is higher. This money goes to mobile
service provider. Kickbacks from this go to TV channel. The loser is SMS
sender. Secondly, the polls give wrong picture as only few interested ones
participate and not the majority. A person can send any number of votes. Since
those who participate do not form representative sample such poll results have
no meaning hence not dependable. Govt should ban such polls. Also SMS for polls
must be free to the sender. If mobile company has to be paid, the charges must
be paid by the poll conductor (TV channel) since it gains by obtaining free
data. Government must ban mobiles companies from charging senders.
Can CONSUMER RIGHT bodies take this up with the Government?
>Rajendra Kakodkar 9822101450
Reliance, one of India's most shady companies, is an investor
in CNN-IBN. Who knows ---- it might be worth investigating
if Vedanta also has stake in CNN-IBN ?
Having said that, I dont think Rajdeep is a crook. Just that
it requires exceptional integrity and caliber
today to run a business and
not side with shady parties.
regards,
Samir
