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RTI UNDER THREAT? THERE are events in the legislative history of democracies that
Wajahat Habibullah, India’s first chief information commis-
may be described as momentous because they are truly trans-
sioner (CIC) has repeatedly stressed that a democracy cannot
formational in nature. The enactment of the US Civil Rights Act
exist without an informed citizenry and transparency of infor-
of 1964 was earth-shaking because by abolishing racial dis-
mation, which are vital to its functioning and also to contain
crimination in every walk of American life it sent a powerful
corruption and hold governments and their instrumentalities
message to all the nations of the world that one of the most
accountable to the governed.
shameful aspects of human exploitation and degradation—
Today, RTI is under threat and several citizens’ organiza-
despite stiff opposition—could be eradicated by a legislative
tions have petitioned Prime Minister Modi asking him to inter-
vote followed by the stroke of a Presidential pen.
vene. This is because the commission—which hears RTI
As a result, American democracy grew exemplary, it be-
cases—has been without a chief for a month. It is headless.
came more robust and gained a moral stature in the world as
According to sources, there is already an estimated back-
never before. It was a huge leap in the direction of a more open
log of 25,000 appeals and complaints pending and the situa-
society. In India, too, there have been many such instances.
tion will go out of hand if there is no swift intervention from
The very introduction of Article 19 in the Indian constitution in
the powers-that-be.
1949, guaranteeing freedom of expression, speaks volumes
Last year, thousands of ordinary people who signed a
for our founding fathers’ recognition of the role of a free press
mass petition successfully thwarted efforts to dilute the RTI
in the progress and development of a democratic Republic.
Act by political parties. During his campaign speeches, the
Arguably, among the most powerful new laws that have
prime minister repeatedly stressed his commitment to “anti
reinforced the concept of people’s empower-
corruption” and “quest for transparency” ideals as the engines
ment—a value apparently dear to Prime Minister
for good governance. As Anjali Bhardwaj of reformist group
Modi’s own heart—is the Right to Information Act
Change.Org puts it: “How then can such a key institution to
(RTI) of 2005. Born out of struggles spearheaded
fight corruption remain rudderless?”
by rural activists, who believed that bad gover-
Government sources explain that the delay is because
nance and exploitation were made possible be-
there is no leader of opposition. The RTI Act, argue the peti-
cause the government denied its citizens their right
tioners, clearly states that in the absence of a recognized
to know, the Act allows citizens to access infor-
leader of opposition, the leader of the single largest opposition
mation, which is under the control of the public au-
party should be part of the committee to appoint the new chief.
thorities.
I cannot emphasis more strongly that RTI Act is one of the
In a previous issue of Views On News, we ran
most empowering legislations for citizens and there are mil-
a lengthy article on how this Act had proven to be
lions of examples from across the country on how people have
an invaluable tool for journalists in securing infor-
successfully used RTI to hold the government accountable.
mation to expose waste, fraud and corruption in
Prime Minister Modi’s appointing a chief information com-
government and to enhance its accountability. In
missioner without delay will be proof that he is serious about
order to promote transparency and accountability
his good governance agenda. Otherwise, there will be lingering
in the working of every public authority, the Act
doubts about the new prime minister’s sincerity and commit-
created a Central Information Commission and
ment to implementing campaign promises, which earned him
State Information Commissions.
the popular mandate.
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Modipulation DILIP BOBB writes that Narendra Modi’s cold attitude towards mainstream media might be part of his grand strategy to keep them on their toes regarding his activities
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Media’s pandemonium INDERJIT BADHWAR observes that the media stampede to grab eyeballs and TRPs ends up creating a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing
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AMAR SINGH doesn’t realize he just missed a chance to regain entry into the Samajwadi Party. He was dining in the same restaurant in a London hotel where Akhilesh Yadav and Arun Jaitley were also dining. Singh spotted Yadav, walked up to him and started chatting. Jaitley was watching them. When Singh went to the washroom, Jaitley walked up to Yadav and asked him if there was any chance of Amar Singh’s entry into SP? Yadav replied that it depended upon whether Singh would pay his restaurant bill or not. Singh came back, paid only his own bill and walked away, leaving Jaitley and Yadav in guffaws. Cover design: Anthony Lawrence
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Bhagwat’s newsworthiness REJECTING any political favoritism in the live telecast of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijaydashmi speech, I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that Doordarshan saw the event as newsworthy and thus aired it. In response to the argument that DD never aired the RSS chief’s speech during UPA’s tenure, Javadekar said that it was very possible that earlier regimes put restrictions on the Prasar Bharati on covering RSS events. He emphasized the fact that the Prasar Bharati is an independent body and government doesn’t force it do anything. Director General of DD, Archana Datta also issued a clarification on the RSS speech, saying that the "speech was like any other news event, therefore we covered it".
A ‘sorry’ state of affairs THE NEW YORK TIMES has issued an apology for a cartoon on India’s Mars Mission. Made by Heng King Song of Singapore, the cartoon was seen as being racist for showing India as a cattle-rearing nation knocking at the door of the elite space club. After several negative feedbacks, the Editorial Page Editor of NYT issued a statement on the paper’s official Facebook page saying: “Mr Heng uses images and text— often in a provocative way... We apologise to readers who were offended by the choice of images in this cartoon.”
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paid news CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER VS Sampath has reiterated the Election Commission’s demand of making paid news an electoral offence. He feels that disqualification of candidates for being involved in the practice of paid news is the only way to end the menace. Currently, inadequacies in the legal framework have tied the hands of the election body from taking effective measures to end the malpractice. Speaking at a session organised by the Law Commission, Sampath said that “paid news” had not yet been accorded the status of an electoral offence. As a result the Election Commission was not within its powers to disqualify the candidate. Sampath informed that a recommendation on this issue was pending with the law ministry. He also wondered why the government advertisements during elections should not be considered paid news.
WSJ-Mint partnership ends HT MEDIA’S business newspaper Mint’s seven year partnership with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has come to an end. According to Qartz.com, the news was broken to Mint employees by editor Sukumar Ranganathan. In an e-mail message to the staff, he assured them that this development would have no impact on Mint’s readership and that the only difference would be the removal of WSJ’s logo. The deal was initially signed in 2006 which was valid for a period of five years, subsequently renewed for another three years in 2011. Quartz India reported that Mint paid close to `30 crore in licensing fee annually. Under the deal, WSJ was free to place advertising on the pages that carried WSJ content in Mint. However, Quartz says that the partnership didn’t result in revenue generation for either of the parties. So when the matter of renewal came up this year, the partnership ended because both side didn’t see much benefit in carrying it forward.
Rajat Sharma is president of NBA CHAIRMAN AND Editor-in-Chief of India TV, Rajat Sharma has been appointed the new president of the News Broadcasters Association—a conglomeration of 26 news and current affairs channels that represents the collective voice of the broadcast media. The NBA board appointed Ashok Venkatramani, chief executive of ABP News, as vice president and Anurradha Prasad, chairperson-cum-managing director of
News24 Broadcast India Ltd, as the honorary treasurer. The other members of the NBA Board include KVL Narayan Rao, executive vice chairperson at New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV); Ashish Bagga, director of TV Today Network Ltd; MK Anand, managing director and chief executive of Times Global Broadcasting Company Ltd; and Bhaskar Das, chief executive of Zee Media Corporation Ltd.
Rajdeep heckled RAJDEEP SARDESAI, consulting editor with India Today, had a tough time covering the Narendra Modi frenzy outside Madison Square Garden in New York, hours before the prime minister was to deliver his maiden speech in the US. A group of Modi fans heckled Sardesai outside the venue. As can be seen in a video uploaded by Headlines Today, a group of people started shouting “Rajdeep murdabad”, as he went about talking to NRIs about Modi’s US visit. Sardesai is seen reaching out to the angry crowd. However, unable to make peace with them, an exasperated Sardesai asks them if Modi had taught them to behave like that. Another video on Youtube shows him getting into a scuffle with Modi supporters. There are several versions of the incident doing the rounds. Some say Sardesai broke into a fight with an NRI crowd after insinuating they did not
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pay for their own tickets but received freebies from RSS sponsors. Deputy News Editor at the Dainik Bhaskar Anchit Sharma in an eyewitness account on Facebook wrote that he, along with some fellow journalists, had to form a human chain “to get Rajdeep out of that place”. Meanwhile, according to a report on Zee News, the NRI involved in the brawl has sent a legal notice to Sardesai.
AT A TIME when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen engaging with the Western media, his unwillingness to reach out to the Indian media has irked the Editors Guild of India. A statement released by the guild urged Modi to enlarge access and engage more actively with journalists. The statement said that a “top-down, one-way interaction in a country with limited internet connectivity and technological awareness cannot be the only answer for large masses of readers, viewers, surfers and listeners. Debate, dialogue and discussion are the essential ingredients of a democratic discourse.” The guild’s contention is that disengagement with the media would bar meaningful democratic discourse. Recently, Modi gave an exclusive interview to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal. However, the Indian media has had no such luck yet. VIEWS ON NEWS
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PLAYING TO THE GALLERY Narendra Modi delivering his address at the reception hosted by US-India Business Council in Washington DC
F Prime Minister Narendra Modi has to pick a public relations firm to trumpet his plans and programs and snappy one-liners, he need not look very far. In fact, just over his shoulder is the panting Indian media pack desperately trying to keep track of his whirlwind visit to New York and Washington. The media coverage, unprecedented in scale, ambition and numbers, started days before Modi’s arrival, with television’s celebrity anchors and reporters and their print counterparts descending en masse in New York to pontificate on the hope generated by the visit for the Indo-US ties. By the time the official visit kicked off, hope had morphed into hype, also unprecedented in scale and language. Fueled in part by the throngs of adoring NRIs desperate for a glimpse of their idol and ever-ready to deliver a sound byte to that effect, the Indian media followed Modi’s every move with breathless buoyancy and headlines to match. No other prime ministerial visit to America, or anywhere else, had received such wall-to-wall coverage and such adulatory prose. Anchors and headline writers turned into advertising copy writers. Madison Square Garden (MSG) became Modison Square Garden, while TV news channels outdid one another in terms of branding by using terms such as Namoerica, Mission Modi
Narendra Modi may have kept the media at bay, but the hype and hysteria over his recent visit shows that it has little understood the strategy and tactic used by the PM to grab eye-balls and hearts BY DILIP BOBB
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Modi treats the Indian media with a great deal of suspicion, a legacy of the 2002 Gujarat riots and after. He believes the media was hostile to him, and so do his aggressive, rapturous followers. and Namoaste America. Creativity found full flow even as Times Square looked like it should be renamed Times Now Square. Arnab Goswami declared that his channel had the biggest reporting team in New York (16, apart from multiple camera crew). The most frequently used description for Modi was one he would have least expected —Rockstar! MEDIAMANIA Modimania had come to town and the media played a big part in that. The kicker was the mad scramble for “exclusives” which saw Headlines Today’s Rahul Kanwal, hair buffeted by the breeze, speaking to us perched precariously on a ledge above Times Square, looking down at a new dawn. Bhupendra Chaubey from CNN IBN piqued our interest about Modi’s probable gift to 10 VIEWS ON NEWS
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President Obama. Here’s the irony. This is the same media that Modi has blacklisted, banning them from travelling with him on Air India One and keeping them at a disdainful distance during his 100 days in office. That resulted in a mad scramble for flights to America. The exaggerated media interest led to a delegation of nearly 85 journalists from India, mostly from English and Hindi news channels. No celebrity anchor wanted to miss out on the event which promised so much by way of mouthwatering fare. Modi visiting a country that had denied him a visa till then. The expected IndoPakistan fireworks at the UN; the economic agenda and the bilaterals, the gaudy and over-thetop extravaganza at Madison Square Garden. And, of course, his meeting with Barak Obama. So we had the nation’s conscious keeper, Arnab Goswami, banging on about Pakistan’s perfidy, something he could have done sitting in the Delhi studio, NDTV’s Barkha Dutt, resplendent in red to match her lipstick, Rajdeep Sardesai creating more news than reporting it with his fracas outside MSG, a nostalgic Maroof Raza from Times Now enlightening us about Muhammad
Ali’s first bout against Joe Frazier at MSG. There was Deepak Chaurasia heading the Hindi news brigade, asking people what they thought of Modi’s dress sense, and a posse of sweating journos looking for people to interview and leading to some inane moments. SHOWMAN MODI There was, in fairness, plenty to report, and the positive signals and upbeat mood made it difficult to be objective. Modi did more than any media outlet could have asked for. Over the course of his visit, he urged the United Nations to institute a World Yoga Day, appeared in Central Park with booty-shaking rappers and Hugh Jackman to declare “May the Force be with You”, and displaced the Knicks basketball team from their home turf by telling a crowd of approximately 19,000 NRIs about the visa concessions he’d arranged for them. “Happy?” he asked the delirious crowd. He could well have been asking the media the same question, and the answer would have been on similar lines. Indeed, the high decibel media coverage from Indian news channels was in stark contrast to the coverage Modi received in the American media, currently obsessing about IS and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. So much so, that the most prominent coverage of Modi’s visit came in the joint op-ed that he wrote with Obama. It was, nonetheless, a media carnival as far as the Indian side was concerned. And the questions came thick and fast. Would American businessmen invest in India? What would they expect in return? If India wants the US to be stern with Pakistan on terror, is India ready to send soldiers to fight America’s war against IS? What about the Nuclear Liability Law and the situation in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of troops? Plenty of media fodder even if the answers proved somewhat elusive. Times Now continued to inform us that the PM should not fall in the trap of limiting his speech to Pakistan
and Kashmir, but ended up doing just that— inviting Pakistani guests on prime time and putting Pakistan and Kashmir on the agenda. Jingoism sitting in New Delhi is one thing, from a studio in New York, it was jarring. UNDERSTAND STRATEGY With such a huge number of reporters and anchors falling over each other to report the same events, such diversions were the price to be paid. Shiv Visvanathan, well-known social commentator, wrote: “We need a media that is reflective, which understands strategy, tactics and time. It has to read the Modi visit as something more than a response to Nawaz Sharif. Foreign policy cannot be reduced to a set of social events. One has to read messages underlying politics and read them unsentimentally. This, media fails to do so. Our emphasis is too much on personalities with little sense of tactics, details and issues.” Strong words, but not without some truth. Even before the trip ended, the Indian media had already pronounced it as “historic” and “game-changing”. However, foreign policy experts know it will take more than a joint op-ed to iron out the stubborn creases of the Indo-US relationship.
GUNG-HO MEDIA (Facing page) Rajdeep Sardesai at the Madison Square Garden in New York, where he was heckled by a Modi supporter; (below) Barkha Dutt covering Modi’s visit
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“One has to read messages underlying politics and read them unsentimentally. This, media fails to do so. Our emphasis is too much on personalities.” — Shiv Visvanathan, social commentator
PARIAH NO MORE (Above) Modi gets a rousing welcome from the Indian community on his US visit
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HOSTILE MEDIA? The visit also emphasized Modi’s frosty relationship with the Indian media. The large media corporations from India that are trailing him believe he gives preferential treatment to US-based media, including Indian reporters based there, because they are less hostile and less challenging. The only time he met the media during the entire trip was a half-hour meeting with US-based Indian journalists at his hotel in New York. Even they were not allowed to bring cameras, recorders, mobile phones or pen and paper to the meeting. The ground rules were made clear— no reporting of anything spoken at the meeting. In journalistic parlance, an off-the-record meeting. It went with the view that Modi treats the Indian media with a great deal of suspicion, a legacy of the 2002 Gujarat riots and after. Modi clearly
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believes the media was hostile to him, and so do his aggressive, rapturous followers as evidenced by the attack on Sardesai. Indeed, the departure from the UPA years— when each arm of the government was leaking information and ministers were planting stories against one another or even the PM— could not be starker. Modi is also uncomfortable with the hyper-aggression of the Indian media. He prefers quiet, one-on-one meetings, and the media scrum following him in America was definitely not to his liking. Modi's regular use of social media—Twitter and Facebook—is a bid to circumvent mainstream media. That does not apply to the news camera. His trip was rife with symbolism and optics, from his walkabouts on New York streets, hugging Jackman at Central Park, laying flowers at the memorial for victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and his stroll with Obama around the Martin Luther King memorial. Modi is acutely conscious of both the power and the presence of the camera. He understands television’s hunger for news, and so feeds it with pictures and updates about his activities. The most notable feature of the visit was that major domestic political developments—being sent to jail, the snapping of electoral ties between the BJP-Shiv Sena and Congress-NCP, took a backseat. With all the celebrity anchors and reporters in the US, such oversights were to be expected, but it did also explain the hyperbolic coverage of his visit. Modi’s domestic constituency and his popularity are clearly on the rise, and it will take a brave microphone-wielding man, or woman, to contest that mood. Modi has returned, and with him, some semblance of normalcy. For a while though, it looked like India’s electronic media had hopped a ride on the Mars Orbiter.
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HIJACKING Gandhi and Nehru
Modi’s cleanliness campaign was meant to elevate him to the status of the Mahatma, while Teacher’s Day was an attempt to become a chacha to kids. But the PM has to go beyond staged tokenism BY AJITH PILLAI
TOKEN CONCERNS (Above) Gandhiji, who made cleanliness his life-long mission; (right) Narendra Modi during the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, attempting to claim Gandhian legacy for his political goals
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CHACHA 2014 (Left) Pt Nehru, who naturally bonded with children; (below) Modi, stepping into his shoes?
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S Prime Minister Narendra Modi desperately trying to dismantle the Mahatma Gandhi-Nehru legacy and attempting to claim part ownership of what can be called a national inheritance? The national cleanliness drive (Swachh Bharat Abhiyan), launched amidst much publicity and hype by the Prime Minister on October 2 (Gandhi Jayanti), is a prime example of the Mahatma’s name being invoked to capitalize on the popularity and wide respect that he commands as the Father of the Nation. It is true that universal sanitation and hygiene
were one of Gandhi’s concerns, as articulated in several articles he wrote over the years in the Harijan, the publication that he edited. But history tells us that the Mahatma’s contribution was far more significant in launching a non-violent struggle against English occupation of India and spearheading a national campaign, which saw India attain Independence from British rule. Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajindar Sachar was perhaps driving home this point when he noted that Gandhi Jayanti must be celebrated with solemnity, as it’s on this day that the nation remembers the sacrifices made by countless VIEWS ON NEWS
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Modi’s primary focus seems to be to showcase urban India as clean and tidy, to create a China-like environment where the filth is hidden away. Gandhi’s vision encompassed the entire country. people and the moral principles that were upheld in the freedom struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi. “The program associated with the birthday must not be diluted by this so-called fad of cleanliness day. Cleanliness has to be actually maintained and not by unnecessarily calling to duty all government servants and making them go through the hypocrisy of arranged photo opportunities,” Justice Sachar said in a statement ahead of the well-choreographed October 2 event. Indeed, going by the ad blitz which was unleashed, it became clear that Modi was the prime focus of the campaign. Mahatma Gandhi—reduced to a sanitation activist—was incidental to the plot. October 2 this year was all about the prime minister fulfilling one of the Mahatma’s dreams by wielding the broom and allocating `62,000 crore to ensure that India will be clean by October 2, 2019—Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. It was exactly the kind of drive that would enthuse the middle class, which just needs its immediate environs kept spick and span even if this is done superficially. FARCICAL ATTEMPT So, will Gandhi Jayanti be merely remembered as national cleanliness day till such time that Modi remains in power? The RSS, whose members have often expressed their reservations about Gandhi’s role in the Freedom Struggle, would be happy with the new construct being given to his birth anniversary. And at the same time, it also helps project Modi as a Gandhi bhakt, fulfilling the Mahatma’s dream of a swachh Bharat. That such a cleanliness drive has a farcical
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touch to it came to light when sanitation workers had to spread litter outside Red Fort so that there would be enough garbage for minister of state for tourism Sripad Naik to clear when the cameras began rolling. Also, senior bureaucrats and police officials may not be expected to bring about any further sweeping changes or indulge in garbage collection now that October 2 has come and gone. In fact, images of thousands of empty water bottles strewn across Rajpath after the cleanliness drive have their own story to tell. A clean India means a lot more than clearing garbage from the streets. Water bodies polluted by industrial effluents and sewage, huge hillocks and mounds of waste piled up outside our cities, including in Gujarat, construction waste choking our rivers, environmental degradation and un-
was also not giving up on everything Nehru stood for. Therefore, we saw Teachers’ Day this year being converted into Children’s Day by the Prime Minister’s publicity machine. In fact, the HRD ministry even went so far as to bill his speech as Chacha Modi sharing his thoughts with kids across the country. The idea was to project Modi as benign and caring, a father figure for young India to admire like Jawaharlal Nehru whose birthday is celebrated as Children’s Day every year. Also, remember Nehru is popularly referred to as chacha (uncle) by children. Modi obviously wanted the tag for himself and therefore, focused much of his Teacher’s Day speech on school children. Interacting with them on live TV hook up, he regaled them with stories from his own childhood and shared his thoughts on a host of issues. But Nehru’s interaction with children was spontaneous and did not owe anything to any script. Modi’s Chacha act, on the other hand, was a politician at work trying to fulfill a political objective of catching them young.
clean air cannot be ignored if we are to become a healthy and clean nation. Mere tokenism will not do, although it does make for politically correct image-building and staking claim to be a Gandhian of sorts. Modi’s primary focus seems to be to showcase urban India as clean and tidy, to create a Chinalike environment where the filth is hidden away. Gandhi’s vision was different and encompassed the entire country and looked at caste issues and untouchability vis-a-vis sanitation. PUBLICITY DRIVE Narendra Modi’s other target has been Congress icon Jawaharlal Nehru. While he was quick to demolish the Planning Commission set up by Nehru and promised lesser bottlenecks for states, Modi
SYMBOL POLITICS (Left) Narendra Modi exchanging roses with children, in the process aggrandizing symbols associated with Pt Nehru
SHARED LEGACY More than Modi, several international leaders have sworn by Mahatma Gandhi. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr are two names that immediately come to mind. Both civil rights leaders accepted Gandhi as their political, moral and intellectual guru. They reposed full faith in his doctrine of non-violent struggle and sought inspiration from him. But they never tried to usurp his legacy or covertly project it as their own. Many would accuse Modi of trying to do just that. At the end of the day, it remains to be seen if the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan will elevate the prime minister to the status of Mahatma Modi or his interaction with children will earn him the tag of being a chacha to kids. Both, as we all know, require more than the services of PR consultants and mass media adulation.
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DUMBED DOWN CACOPHONY
Pack Journalism
The media is going ga-ga over bread and circus routines and forgetting the duty to dig out controversial topics of public importance, to analyze and to propagate knowledge BY INDERJIT BADHWAR here is just too much noise in the press right now. The din, the cacophonous voices actually act as barriers to information that should serve as the basis for reasoned opinions and calibrated decision-making by the public as well as the government. And nowhere is this phenomenon more evident at this moment than in the Indian media. It looks and sounds like a combination of Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World and Fox News. Cacophony is not entirely an unwelcome phenomenon because disharmony—in the sense of a difference of opinion—is part and parcel of a robust democracy. But the Indian cacophony is peculiar in that the press speaks with a dissonance aimed not at expounding a different point of view but rather achieving the same propaganda goal by screaming “My News Is Better Than Yours.” It’s like the old British adage of collective cabinet responsibility: It doesn’t matter a damn how we say it, so long as we all say the same thing. Switch
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back and forth between the countless national news channels during the day or evening prime time. After a while your eyes glaze over, your ears stop hearing, the mind ceases to absorb. It’s all the same thing being repeated ad nauseam ad infinitum. The diet of the morning news is made up of stale left-overs from the previous evening’s dinner. The afternoon fare is all ticker stuff and crawls punctuated by ANI footage, with an occasional identifier mike thrown into the frame by a sleepy reporter urged by his studio on the talk-back to make sure the channel logo is visible. And the evenings! Oh those evenings with pretentious inquisitions by anchors playing Torquemada during the Spanish Inquisition (There are now radio ads exhorting buyers to purchase products in the unmistakable inquisitorial tone of Times-TV Arnab Goswami), or Wot-Me-Worry Alfred-E Neumanesque questions from Breath-
less-Who-The-People Barkha asking a Kashmir flood victim standing in knee-deep water in her house: “How are things in your home?” And. And. The here-we-go-round-themulberry-bush boys and girls—the studio or OB-vanned guests—who appear almost simultaneously in all channels in their little cubby holes, as if beamed from box to box by quantum mechanics by Star Trek’s Scotty’s transporter. And heavens! They’re always the same people answering the same questions, and repeating the same things. The shows are readymade templates—one for the anchor, one for the guest. It’s as if you’re hearing, over and over again Captain Kirk’s, “Beam me up, Scotty,” or similar phrases like (right out of a Google search), “Just the facts, ma’am,” attributed to Jack Webb’s character of Joe Friday on Dragnet; “It’s elementary, my dear Watson,” attributed to Sherlock Holmes; “Luke, I am your father,” attributed to Darth Vader; or “Play it again, Sam,” attributed to Rick in Casablanca; and “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” attributed to Gold Hat in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. At least these five lines still have a freshness to them when compared with “unidirectionalism,”
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FLEETING ATTENTION In its hurry to “cover” events, media did justice neither to the significance of Modi’s Japan visit (above), nor to the devastation caused by Kashmir floods (facing page)
“bilateralism,” “at the end of the day,” “the bottom line is,” “endgame,” “doomsday,” “stop interrupting,” “you did not hear me out,” “you did not answer the question.” !!
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ften, the question is so dumb that it neither merits nor has an answer. On this very subject I am going to quote liberally from a recent note sent to me by an astute, perspicacious observer not only of politics and the human condition but also of the spoken and written word. Let’s just call him J. He argues that the Indian media is a great force for good, but only because it’s generally free despite serious cross-media ownership problems and “despite being horribly unprofessional for the most part.” J applauds the appearance on the stage of periodicals like Views On News. Reviews and criticism of the Fourth Estate are essential in the interest of accountability, but equally important is the art of poking fun at it and puncturing hot air balloons, as did the great American media critic and satirist AJ Liebling of the New Yorker. 20 VIEWS ON NEWS
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Says J: “The reporting of news (always “Breaking News”) is comic, especially on some Hindi channels that I’ve occasionally watched—neither the anchor nor the reporter from the site had a clue about what the issues were. The major channels do no homework, just collect people for a slanging match, in which there’s no scope for serious discussion, but plenty of entertainment and lucrative eyeballs.” During that terrorist attack on Bombay many of us had to turn to CNN (and BBC, though on that occasion CNN was certainly better) for any serious discussion by people who knew about terrorist attacks and how to deal with them. He adds: “All that our channels showed was overexcited reporters repeating themselves (and every few seconds calling the Taj Mahal Hotel ‘iconic’). And I understand the media was so irresponsible, it actually cost lives. The goofs by the government and the cops were disgraceful, but it wasn’t our media that analyzed and brought them to light.” He observes, and I think correctly, that the only serious channels are the business channels,
where the audience expects to be informed and not just entertained. J’s lament: Who’s gonna fix the show, since the Indian media get an uncomplaining and apparently enthusiastic audience? Actually, if you follow the social media, you can see the sparks of change and awareness. The younger lot of Indians, if you read the acerbic criticisms and reviews in blogs and Twitter and LinkedIn, are not swallowing everything served to them in print or on TV. They have become more discerning and they are learning how to talk back to their television sets.
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nd the media will learn from the audience rather than the other way around. During the last four months, and especially since the new PM started his global peregrinations, the repetitive cacophony has been Ra Ra Modi. The medium and message seem to have merged. The show, the images, the events in, and of, themselves have assumed a greater, more forceful dimension than the substance.
The media is going ga-ga over bread and circus routines and forgetting the driving principle behind the socio-political evolutionary process which earned it the venerable position of Fourth Estate—the duty to dig out controversial topics of public importance, to analyze and to propagate knowledge. To spread the light. What have hogged the show recently are NaMo’s acronyms, rhymes and alliterations, as Manas Chakravarty put it, plus titillating images and travelogues bereft of significance. Modi in VIEWS ON NEWS
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“The major channels do no homework, just collect people for a slanging match, in which there’s no scope for serious discussion, but plenty of entertainment and lucrative eyeballs.” — A political observer
Bhutan, Modi in Japan, Xi in India, Modi in America. What the public recalls from all the media coverage is: Abe follows Modi on Twitter; Abe will invest some $25 billion in India; Abe receives the Gita from Modi; Modi criticizes Chinese expansionism; Xi promises another $25 billion FDI and hopes to resolve border dispute through negotiations; Modi’s fashionista image gets a boost in the US as he receives a thunderous welcome from Indian Americans; and the clichéd on-the-street reactions, official “bytes” and the tried-and-tested feedbacks from those same screaming people who live in those little squares in your TV sets back home. This is no criticism of Modi. Like any world leader he will exploit the photo opps and the fawning coverage to the hilt. He is, after all a master communicator. But what about our own media
THE HEADLINE HUNT VON team made the following observations regarding front-page news of leading national dailies between September 21 and September 30, 2014. Mars Mission becomes the big news as the fortnight begins. Mars mission space is taken over by Shiv Sena-BJP and NCP-Congress split. The news makes front-page appearance till the alliances break. Continued aggression from the Chinese side during Modi’s meeting with Chinese President grabs a few headlines. Narendra Modi’s US visit hogs the headlines a week before he actually landed there. Once there, front pages are drowned
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by Modi’s speeches. Jayalalithaa’s conviction gets front page headlines for two consecutive days but has to share space with Modi’s US visit. Only The Hindu devotes its entire front page to Amma’s conviction a day after the verdict. Arrest of Gautam Khaitan, former board member of a tech-firm, makes front page appearance but no follow-ups on it. The Kashmir floods completely disappear from all the papers, with only one single column story finding space in The Times of India on September 23. Only The Hindu reports the death of 46 in Assam, Meghalaya flood on September 24 as front page news, but no follow-ups.
communicators and their duty to reflect and to tickle our intellectual taste buds? Where were the media reality checks? Did we see a single serious analytical piece in the mass media about the limits and trade-offs in wooing Japan at the expense of further irritating our northern dragon who was breathing fire down our borders even as Xi was talking peace in Delhi? Does India have the capacity, as of now, to absorb $50 billion in investments with its creaky infrastructure? Will qualified NRIs return to India before they are certain that the changes which are being promised are for real? As a visual treat the continuing “Modirama” is great entertainment. But even popular TV serials begin to sound boring and repetitive after a while. Keeping up the tempo and interest is the job of the Modi spin doctors. The job of the media is to penetrate the PR web and to put the drama into an intelligent, analytical framework. But this is the era of pack journalism. The media, herd-like, jumps from fire to fire, covering the next blaze, while the previous one is still burning or smoldering. One day it’s rape-hangings in UP. The next day it is jettisoned and now, it’s Japan. The next day Japan is forgotten and it’s floods in Kashmir, and while Srinagar lies sunken and wretched, the media butterflies flit to Madison Square Gardens. They have not noticed that some Pakistani flags are fluttering in some of the flooded areas in the valley. The golden rules of good journalism—constantly following up on stories, going back again and again to unfinished, changing and developing stories, predicting trends, applying common sense to situations, bringing to bear the force of expertise and historical perspectives on rapidly unfolding events—seems to have evanesced. The duty of good reporters and editors is to inform, enlighten and be in the vanguard of the advancement of knowledge and enlightenment, but all too often they are themselves the willing and gullible audiences mesmerized by the bread and circus routines of those in power.
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Reporter quits ‘on-air’ CHARLO GREEN, reporter for Alaska’s virtual television news channel, KTVA, in a dramatic end to her segment, quit her job on-air. Charlo said: “Now everything you heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska. And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, f**k it, I quit.” Having grown tired of reporting the news, Charlo said that she will be directing her energy towards the fight to legalize marijuana in the state. She has now left the job to become the President and CEO of the Alaska Cannabis Club, which is the state’s only legal medical marijuana resource.
Pak journalist shot dead YAQOOB SHEHZAD, a news correspondent with Express News, a private TV channel in Pakistan, was killed by unknown gunmen in Gujranwala in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The journalist was sitting with a friend when he was shot at thrice, killing him on the spot and injuring his friend. Besides being a journalist, Yaqoob was also the chairperson of the city’s press club. Police are looking into the journalist’s work to ascertain if he was killed because of it. In fact, Reporters Without Borders, in its 2010 and 2011 report, labeled Pakistan as the deadliest country for journalists.
UNODC workshop for journos UNITED NATIONS Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), under its Regional Programme for Afghanistan and its Neighbouring Countries, organized a two-day workshop on “Drugs and the Media: The Regional Counter Narcotics Awareness Workshop for Journalists”. This workshop was conducted on September 23-24 in Bhurban, Pakistan. The workshop particularly aimed at publicizing the efforts of the governments of these regions in promoting public awareness about drug abuse through the media. The organization felt that journalists can play an important role in raising public awareness on counter-narcotics issues.
NYT to eliminate jobs THE NEW YORK TIMES (NYT) is planning to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs and some other positions from its editorial and business operations. Further action may also involve offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if employees refuse to leave their job voluntarily. In addition to job cuts, the NYT Opinion, a mobile application dedicated to opinion content, also shut down due to its incapability to draw audience. However, the NYT is not alone in cutting jobs. Other newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Freedom Communications and two Californian newspapers—The Orange County Register and The Press Enterprise of Riverside—carried out layoffs in their newsrooms. VIEWS ON NEWS
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Perspective
Changing media roles
WAS THE STORY WORTH MY SALT?
Few news channels, editors and anchors ask this crucial question nowadays. That’s the reason why news has suffered BY GOPINATH MENON N the seventies, as a young schoolboy, my first exposure to news was through radio. When the sonorous voice of Melville de Mello boomed on radio: “This is All India Radio”, it meant dinner time. If you were not on the table by then, you might just sleep hungry. What followed for the next 15 minutes were awareness, clarity and knowledge, traits which defined news as a genre. News in those days had big icons who were the medium by which the message was delivered. Some of them were Devki Nandan 24 VIEWS ON NEWS
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Pande, Barun Haldar, Vinod Kashyap, Jai Narain Sharma, etc, on radio. So, radio was my first brush with news and it was always sacred. News as a genre has come a long way since then. These days, it has become synonymous with everything other than news. A quick take on why news has metamorphosed in such a manner—what is the state today—and is there scope for some sanity. THE EIGHTIES Sanity prevailed, as content had more of depth than width. Doordarshan was sensible and com-
HYPE WITHOUT SUBSTANCE All the news channels in India left no stone unturned to project Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the ‘new rockstar’ while covering his recent US visit monsensical. It had defined limits for anchors and delivery of content. The written word had discipline and the delegation of authority and responsibility for the news editor, sub-editor, and reporter was crystal clear. All had a job to do and the clear motive was to get published. The byline came later. I distinctly remember that as a trainee at the Ananda Bazar Patrika group I had gone to Kolkata for my orientation. I had the privilege to meet MJ Akbar and his team, and was amazed to see the stories that were not carried. This is what defined the quality of The Telegraph, as only crème de la crème stories could make it to the newspaper in those days. So, the learning was: “higher the spike rate of stories, better the quality of the paper”.
The biggest mistake news channels have made is glorifying the anchor. As a result, anchors come with their own agenda, diluting the purpose and credibility of the channel concerned. THE NINETIES The main architect for the media revolution then was Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Had he not invaded Kuwait, CNN would not have beamed into India and neither would have 700 channels followed suit. The thousands who work in TV stations, radio stations and newspapers need to throw flower petals at Saddam’s feet as each one of them owes their success and riches to him. VIEWS ON NEWS
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SHAPING THE MEDIA (L-R) The nineties brought about a sea change in media reporting after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and CNN beamed into India; In the seventies, the voice of Melville de Mello was synonymous with news on All India Radio
Despite all this gimmickry and histrionics of news channels, only a miniscule of the audience watches them. Seldom does a sane and conscious viewer watch a channel for more than nine minutes continuously. In the process, the media industry was commoditized. Commoditized to the core. NEWS CHANNELS TODAY There are many and there are none. My experience has taught me that the biggest mistake that news channels have made is glorifying the anchor and making him or her bigger than the channel. As a result, anchors who have become household names, come with their own agenda within a peer group. This dilutes the purpose and credibility of the news channel. 26 VIEWS ON NEWS
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WHERE ARE THE EDITORS? The editor is the captain of the ship. In a news channel, there are at least 20 editors with different suffixes or prefixes—chief editor, group editor, executive editor, editor at large, editor-south, mentoring editor, consulting editor... and so on. New titles are being invented all the time. That’s all fine, but what is the job profile, the responsibility, the accountability? Nobody has a clue and this defines the dilemma of the genre. Nobody knows where the buck really stops or whose call is the final one. BUSINESS VS RUNNING A MEDIA HOUSE This is where the crux of the problem lies, and this will never go away. When editors do not have depth in thought, contacts and knowledge, width will prevail. This is when business realities will prevail and editors will have to understand balance sheets. They seldom do, and as a result, will always tow the line. DRAG THE STORY Once you get a story, the attempt is always to not let it finish. So a boring idea—“Should India teach Pakistan a lesson?”—is given an hour on prime time. All you need is four people on the panel
with divergent views and a pathological hatred towards each other. These stories never have a concluding viewpoint. It always ends with the anchor lamenting: “I am afraid, I am running out of time, I will give each of you 30 seconds to sum up.” This is when the cat is out of the bag as each participant sums up in 30 seconds what was stammered out in the last one hour. NEVER-ENDING SAGA Look at stories and their treatment by news channels. They will put all soaps and serials to shame. Their stories are full of bitterness, malice and negativity. These are the three traits that all soaps have, apart from the fact that they always end an episode on a crescendo. So, whether it’s two famous industrialist brothers fighting, a charismatic politician’s socialite wife dying under mysterious circumstances or the previous chief of army staff ’s probable vendetta against a fellow officer, these stories do not finish. There is always a mysterious high at the end of the hour, along with a “The Big Question we are asking today”. So, the soaps before we went to press were: Will the BJP break ties with the Shiv Sena, various facets of Modi’s visit to the US, how many billions will he garner for India, etc. The focus for all channels was to make the prime minister the new rockstar for a week. While talking to its audiences, the news channels were also indirectly addressing the prime minister. THE AUDIENCES We are generally suckers in life, and fall for this trap of bequeathing intelligence. As a result, we pick up the mobile and punch in an sms to a sixdigit number, only to realize that it’s not 80 paisa per sms but `8. Few realize that the revenue news channels earn from these smses is shared between the channel and the service provider.
HOW MANY WATCH NEWS? In spite of all this gimmickry, buffoonery and histrionics, only a miniscule of the audience watches news channels. What is worse is that seldom does a sane and conscious viewer watch a single news channel for more than nine minutes, continuously.
TOO MUCH ATTENTION Today, anchors like Arnab Goswami (left) and Rajdeep Sardesai, to name a few, have been needlessly glorified by their channels
THE WAY FORWARD News channels need to find editors who understand audiences and comprehend content. They need to ask questions they do not have answers to and anchors need to realize they are not bigger than the channel. All need to look at themselves in the mirror the next day and answer: “Was the story worth my salt?” The present approach of all news channels is to report the story. But the focus should be on the “story behind the story”. Till then, I am afraid the power of the written word will prevail, dictate and make the establishment take notice. After all, we kickstart the day reading and sign off, dead tired, with television. —The writer is business advisor, Melon Media VIEWS ON NEWS
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IT’S COMPLICATED
Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web BY JULIA ANGWIN
OR years people have noticed a funny thing about Facebook’s ubiquitous “Like” button. It has been sending data to Facebook tracking the sites you visit. Each time details of the tracking were revealed, Facebook promised that it wasn’t using the data for any commercial purposes. No longer. Last week, Facebook announced it will start using its Like button and similar tools to track people across the Internet for advertising purposes. 28 VIEWS ON NEWS
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Here is the long history of the revelations and Facebook’s denials: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg introduces the “transformative” Like button… April 21, 2010—Facebook introduces the “Like” button in 2010 at its F8 developer conference. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declares that it will be “the most transformative thing we’ve ever done for the Web.” He says his goal is to encourage a Web where all products and services use people’s real identity. He suggests, in fact, that creating a personally identifiable web experience could be divine: “When you go to heaven, all of
your friends are all there and everything is just the way you want it to be,” he says. “Together, lets build a world that is that good.” Which sends data… Nov. 30, 2010—Dutch researcher Arnold Roosendaal publishes a paper showing that Facebook Like buttons transmit data about users even
when the user doesn’t click on the button. Facebook later says that Roosendaal found a “bug.” even when users don’t click on it… May 18, 2011—The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook Like buttons collect data about users even when they don’t click them. Facebook’s chief technology officer says: “We don’t use them
MEDIA REPORTS ON FACEBOOK Here is Pro Publica’s rounding up of the best reads on Facebook and privacy during the last few year.
products, said the changes were made “in a way that respects user privacy.”
When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook, The Wall Street Journal, October 2012 Two University of Texas students who didn’t want their fathers to know they were gay thought they had taken advantage of Facebook’s privacy settings. But their fathers found out anyway when the president of Queer Chorus, a campus choir they belonged to, added them to Queer Chorus’ Facebook group and Facebook automatically published a public notification. “Our hearts go out to these young people,” Andrew Noyes, a Facebook spokesman, told the Journal. “Their unfortunate experience reminds us that we must continue our work to empower and educate users about our robust privacy controls.”
Facebook Confirms It Is Scanning Your Private Message for Links, The Next Web, October 2012 A Polish startup called KILLSWITCH.me posted a video to the website Hacker News that seemed to show that including link to a website — say, Mashable — in a private message to another Facebook user would include the “Like” counter on Mashable’s website. Facebook confirmed to The Next Web that it was doing this, though it said it was not revealing any of users’ private information.
Facebook Raises Fears With Ad Tracking, The Financial Times, September 2012 Facebook has been working with a company called Datalogix to track how often people who see ads for a given product on Facebook end up buying it in real-world stores. Datalogix does this by matching up the email addresses tied to users’ Facebook accounts with troves of email addresses and other data it has purchased, much of which comes from customer loyalty cards and other programs. The company has data on 70 million American households from more than 1,000 retailers, including drug stores and grocers. Facebook Sells More Access to Members, The Wall Street Journal, October 2012 In addition to its work with Datalogix, Facebook has started letting advertisers target users based on their email addresses, their phone numbers and the other websites they’ve been visiting. Gokul Rajaram, who oversees Facebook’s ad
Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?, The Atlantic, February 2011 When Robert Collins applied for a job with the Maryland Department of Corrections, the organization required him to give them his Facebook password. The Department of Corrections backed down after the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter calling the practice “a frightening and illegal invasion of privacy,” but it hasn’t stopped elsewhere. California became the latest state to ban it last month. Why Facebook Is After Your Kids, The New York Times Magazine, October 2011 The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which bars websites from gathering data about children under 13, means that 12-year-olds can’t legally use Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg wants to change that. “That will be a fight we take on at some point,” he said. He may not be successful. The Federal Trade Commission pushed new rules last month to make it harder for companies to track children online. Germans Reopen Investigation on Facebook
Privacy, The New York Times, August 2012 In August, the German data protection commissioner in Hamburg—yes, the Germans have a data protection commissioner— reopened an investigation into Facebook’s huge database of human faces culled from users’ photos. (Johannes Caspar, the commissioner, had suspended the inquiry in June but reopened it when Facebook failed to cooperate.) The database is a component of facial-recognition technology that allows Facebook to automatically detect users’ friends’ faces in the photos they upload to Facebook. The company has since agreed to get rid of it for users who live in the European Union. Zuckerberg: Facebook ‘Made a Bunch of Mistakes’ on Privacy, Mashable, November 2011 Facebook is now required to respect users’ privacy and undergo regular privacy audits for two decades, thanks to a settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and the social network last November. It also requires that Facebook pay $16,000 a day for each violation of the agreement. In a blog post the day the settlement was announced, Zuckerberg apologized for making “a bunch of mistakes” on privacy issues, including its now-defunct Beacon advertising platform and a number of changes made in 2009. Facebook to Target Ads Based on App Usage, The Wall Street Journal, July 2012 Facebook is also taking steps to track users on mobile devices, likely the next frontier for online privacy. “The social network is tracking the apps that people use through its popular Facebook Connect feature,” the Journal reports, “which lets users log in to millions of websites and apps as varied as Amazon.com, LinkedIn and Yelp with their Facebook identity.” Facebook uses that data to help target ads. VIEWS ON NEWS
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be tracked when they are logged out of Facebook. Facebook says not to worry... Sept. 27, 2011—Facebook tells the New York Times that it doesn’t use data from Like buttons and other widgets to track users or target advertising to them, and that it deletes or anonymizes the data within 90 days. Turns out Facebook has patented the technique… Oct. 1, 2011—Blogger Michael Arrington digs up a Facebook patent application for “a method … for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain.” The title of his blog post: “Brutal Dishonesty.”
In June, Facebook reveals it will start tracking users across the Internet using its widgets such as the Like button. The company also says it will let people view and adjust the types of ads they see.
But, really, don’t worry… Dec. 7, 2012 – As the Wall Street Journal finds that Facebook Like buttons and other widgets appear on two-thirds of 900 websites surveyed, the company says again it only uses data from unclicked Like buttons for security purposes and to fix bugs in its software.
for tracking and they’re not intended for tracking.” Internet pioneer says log of out Facebook… Sept. 24, 2011—Veteran tech blogger Dave Winer writes that “ Facebook is scaring me” with its apps like the social reader, which can automatically share stories you read. This “kind of behavior deserves a bad name, like phishing, or spam, or cyber-stalking,” he writes. Winer recommends that users log out of Facebook to prevent being tracked on other websites. Except logging out doesn’t work… Sept. 25, 2011—Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic writes that “ Logging Out of Facebook is Not Enough.” He shows that Facebook is tracking users even when they log out of the site. Facebook responds that it is fixing the issue so people won’t 30 VIEWS ON NEWS
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OK, worry… June 12, 2014—Facebook tells Ad Age that it will start tracking users across the Internet using its widgets such as the Like button. It’s a bold move. Twitter and Pinterest, which track people with their Tweet and PinIt buttons, offer users the ability to opt out. And Google has pledged it will not combine data from its ad-tracking network DoubleClick with personally identifiable data without user’s opt-in consent. Facebook does not offer an opt-out in its privacy settings. Instead Facebook asks members to visit an ad industry page, where they can opt out from targeted advertising from Facebook and other companies. The company also says it will let people view and adjust the types of ads they see. —Courtesy ProPublica
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India wins its fourth gold medal at the Asian Games; Yogeshwar Dutt gets a gold in wrestling Jayalalithaa to remain in prison as Karnataka High Court adjourns hearing on her bail plea. Will take up her petition on October 7
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Special Investigative Techniques Aniruddha Bahal
STINGER MISSILE The founder of Cobrapost is a man with little fear. Undercover investigations to show corruption and illegal deals are all par for the course for him BY SOMI DAS t takes some courage for a journalist to do sting operations. But when that journalist is Aniruddha Bahal, who got the Bad Sex Award from Literary Review for producing one of the worst descriptions of a sex scene in a novel, Bunker 13, you know you have an interesting cocktail. And it might get more interesting this October, if Bahal, as founder and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost, an online magazine, comes out with another sting. Against whom and for what, is a million dollar question. Bahal is known more for his undercover stories which target corruption, be it in cricket or shady defense deals. But he admits: “I became a journalist so I could support myself as a novelist. But journalism itself has become interesting. I couldn’t choose between the two.” COURT BATTLES His first major undercover report, Operation West End, has become a hallmark of investigative journalism. He fought countless court battles in the aftermath of it and had a bitter parting with Tarun Tejpal, with whom he co-founded Tehelka. Apparently, Tejpal took the credit for investigations done by Bahal and his colleague, Matthew Samuel. Bahal then set up Cobrapost, which did sting operations and investigative stories. However, stings, as an ethical journalism tool, have always Photos: Anil Sakya
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been questioned. Bahal prefers to use the term “undercover” operation rather than “sting” operation for investigations involving hidden cameras. It does have its risks, as the undercover reporter is working in a system designed to protect the culprit. TAKING ON THE SYSTEM Bahal has had his share of troubles fighting battles against the naysayers. In 2010, while conducting Operation Duryodhan, he and his aide, Sushasini Raj, were charge-sheeted under the Prevention of Corruption Act for offering bribes to MPs for asking scripted questions during Question Hour in parliament. But a Delhi court exonerated them and ruled that a citizen is within his rights to conduct a sting operation in public interest. It was the first sting operation conducted by Cobrapost, in collaboration with Aaj Tak. It was aired on all channels on December 12, 2005, and showed disturbing visuals of elected representatives taking money for asking ludicrous questions like: “Has the ministry lifted the 1962 ban it imposed on the book, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, the 1975 ban on Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hunter Thomson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? If so, when were the bans removed?” Surprisingly, after one-and-a-half years, when an FIR was finally registered in the case, it was against Bahal and Raj, for conducting the sting operation. The court, however, ruled: “In order to expose corruption at higher levels and to show to what extent the state managers are corrupt, acting as an agent provocateur does not amount to committing a crime.” Despite being a sting veteran, Bahal says: “Hidden cameras are just one small aspect that you could use in investigations. Nobody pays much attention to RTI stories or open-camera investigations. But because we use hidden cameras intelligently and on manifestly public interest topics, they garner disproportionate attention.”
OPERATIONS GALORE Stings done by Aniruddha Bahal and his team at Tehelka and Cobrapost: Operation West End: Showed government officials accepting bribes in a fake arms deal during the NDA regime. Led to the conviction of Bangaru Laxman, then BJP president, who was caught accepting a bribe. Fallen Heroes: This undercover investigation caught on camera cricketers speaking about fixing matches. Operation Duryodhan: 11 MPs were caught on camera accepting money for asking scripted questions during the Question Hour. Operation Red Spider: Investigated alleged money laundering practices in 10 public and private sector banks. The sting was criticized for targeting lower officials and not delving into corruption higher up
the ladder. Operation Blue Virus: An investigation into alleged unethical practices of social media marketing companies. It came at a time when politicians were being accused of buying Twitter followers and Facebook likes. Operation Falcon Claw: It caught 11 MPs from the Congress, BJP, BSP, JDU and AIADMK, willing to issue a letter of recommendation to promote a fictitious Australian oil exploration company in STYLE`50,000 CLASS AND exchange for fee ranging between Anupam Kher’s show kicked to `50 lakh. off with Shah Rukh Khan as Operation Janmabhoomi: Released his guest months before the elections, the operation showed footage of Sangh leaders who claimed that the Babri demolition was carried out with the prior knowledge of BJP leaders.
But he admits that legal prudence on the part of media owners and the corporate culture that prevails in media houses is killing investigative journalism. “If your owner-editors listen too much to lawyers and accountants, investigations can never happen. So a lot also depends on the culture of the organization and that stems from ownereditors. Do they have the capacity to handle trouble? Investigative stories largely bring in their wake, powerful, disgruntled people. A majority of media organizations don’t like that. They have a corporate culture to protect.” POLITICALLY SENSITIVE Pre-election time was a busy one for Cobrapost, as it did seven back-to-back stings between May 2013 and April 2014 (see box). Of these, three were on politically sensitive issues—on the alleged snooping of a young girl by Gujarat police on the orders of Amit Shah and the other two on major riots that scarred India—Babri Masjid demolition and 1984 anti-Sikh riots. While all these operations garnered public VIEWS ON NEWS
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of newspapers. So it was well-covered. I have no complaints,” he adds.
“Each journalist makes choices while doing a story. Within that they have to see that they are true to facts, not playing a particular angle and having the guts to take on crooks.” —Aniruddha Bahal
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attention, they failed to make any impact on political discourse then. Neither the snooping tapes nor Operation Ayodhya dented BJP’s fortunes. The 1984 investigation was seen as a balancing act, lest Cobrapost was accused of acting at the behest of the Congress. Bahal also insists: “You cannot pursue stories as if you have a quota rule to follow. Stories come to you because of your research, your contacts, luck, your reputation with your sources and the reach of your platform. The impact of your stories cannot be predicted. They depend on the news environment and their intrinsic news worthiness.” Perhaps the pro-BJP environment during this time led to the fact that these stings did not have much effect. But Bahal believes that the snooping story, The Stalkers (Shah’s illegal surveillance), left its mark, and became an election issue. “It went on for a few weeks on the front pages
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OWNERSHIP ISSUES In 2013, when Cobrapost kicked off a hectic year with Operation Red Spider, questions were raised about the ownership pattern of his organization. According to media reports, one of the investors could be traced to Japan. Soon, the portal was put under the fold of Forum for Media and Literature, a non-profit society. But how sustainable is the non-profit route for an organization doing investigative journalism? Bahal says: “It is still a work in progress. We got our 80G income tax exemption certificate this year. People have made commitments. Technology has made it possible for us to reach out to a large audience on the web. We put our videos on YouTube. And bandwidth is cheap. We are fortunate.” Some of the stings that Cobrapost did last year might have fizzled out. But the portal will soon be back in action. “We are a small organization and use our resources judiciously. We have some things in the pipeline and should come out with it by October,” informs Bahal. As for whether the regime change has affected journalistic vigor, the Cobrapost editor says: “Regime changes are nothing new. Media owners can gauge how seats of power react towards dissent and freedom of expression, both of which could hurt the establishment. It’s a little early to pass a verdict on this government.” Meanwhile, Bahal is producing an animation film and working on a few film scripts. Surprisingly, this tech-savvy journalist isn’t on Twitter. He says: “I love my peace and calm. Each one of us has only a finite amount of energy. One shouldn’t waste it on reacting to rubbish in the virtual world. But I see many journalists getting affected by it. Some of them could develop a tendency to write or report safely, fearing the abuse. That would be a loss for journalism.” As for Bahal, he has no such fears.
Sports Asian Games Hockey
A GoldenMoment HISTORIC WIN The jubilant Indian team after beating defending champions Pakistan 4-2 in the penalty shootout
India clinched a gold after 16 long years, and as a result, qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics. The win should spur the boys to do an encore BY V KRISHNASWAMY IN INCHEON NLY one gold medal was up for grabs in the men’s hockey competition at the 17th Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, but it’s emotional significance was extremely high. More so for Indians. Afterall, the last gold had come in only at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok. As the crowds, the players and the media walked out of Seonhak Hockey Stadium, a fellow journalist remarked: “All gold medals are great performances, but this one gold seems to have more emotional attachment than all others put together.” Of the
other Indian individual medallists there was wrestling superstar Yogeshwar Dutt, a gold medallist at the Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games and a bronze medallist at the Olympics. Accompanied by that other superstar-in-the-making, wrestler Bajrang Kumar, Dutt blurted: “Is hockey ke gold se poora desh jhoom utha hai (The whole of India is dancing with this hockey gold).” That’s why Terry Walsh, who is a long-time watcher of Indian hockey and now the national coach, said: “This is a special moment for Indian hockey. It is a moment in time we need to cherish and congratulations to the team for that.” Beaming with pride, Walsh added: “I am pleased for the team, for boys like Sardar who have been in the VIEWS ON NEWS
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LETHAL COMBO? (From above left) Captain Sardar Singh with national coach Terry Walsh; Indian fans had stormed into the field after the match
team for a long time and have not played a big final. I hope this will provide momentum to Indian hockey.”
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eferring to the World Cup in Holland earlier this year, where India finished ninth, he said: “At the World Cup, we were the hunters but here, we were the hunted. The psychology of playing hunter as opposed to being hunted is very profound. (Here) Pakistan were the hunters and we were the hunted.” He pointed out: “Pakistan played with individual flair, which is the old style versus (what) India played, the modern style.” India’s captain, Sardar Singh, considered by many as one of the best players of the current generation, looked more relieved than happy. “The win will sink in slowly. This is the best moment of my career over the last seven-eight years. Our aim was to win the gold and qualify for the Olympics and we attained that,” he said. Referring to 2016 Olympics, he added: “Now, we have two years to work on the mistakes made at Incheon. But the pressure of qualifying for the Olympics is off and we can work hard on that. And we have a very good crop of players.” When the Indians walked onto the pitch for the finals, there was a lot of tension. India had lost to Pakistan in the league stage, but both Walsh and Sardar had insisted that India played better and it was only a league, and that the semis and final were what counted. It sounded like brave talk. And when Pakistan struck in the third minute 40 VIEWS ON NEWS
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of the final through Muhammed Rizwan Jr, who took advantage of a fast counter and slow-to-react Indian defence, it seemed the worst fears were coming true. The Indians stung by the reverse played brilliant hockey in the second session. They got the much-needed equalizer through an opportunistic goal by Kothajit Singh.
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ndia dominated the session, prompting Walsh to later say: “We should have finished off the match in the second quarter, when we dominated. We had the chances.” Indians could not manage another goal in the 60-minute regulation—a change from the old 70-minute matches, which got two halves instead of four quarters now. The game went into the tie-breaker.. India scored four times in five, while Pakistan managed just two in four, making their last try redundant. For India, it was not just the scorers, goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, too, was brilliant. The Indian forwards on target were Akashdeep, Rupinderpal, Birender Lakra and Dharamvir, while Manpreet’s hit was disallowed on grounds that he went over eight seconds. For Pakistan, Waqas Muhammed, on this third attempt, and Shafqat Rasool, were on target. Then it was time to celebrate. “Tonight we will celebrate what has been the best moment for everyone in this team, the coach and management included,” said Sardar after the triumph . And who could dispute that!
Small screen Anupam Kher show
SHOOTING STARS There are talk shows and more talk shows. What makes this one stand out? Warmth, candidness and respect BY MUNISH RATHORE VIEWS ON NEWS
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CLASS AND STYLE Anupam Kher’s show kicked off with Shah Rukh Khan as his guest
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NUPAM Kher is back on television and how. The last time he was seen on the small screen was almost 13 years ago, when he hosted a show Say Na Something With Anupam Uncle for SAB TV. This one-of-a-kind show had Kher interviewing kids about their likes and dislikes. Uncle Anupam as the show’s host, gelled with the kids with flawless ease, giving us a peek into their minds. Kher has made a comeback with the same avuncular charm in a chat show called The Anupam Kher Show: Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai. Opening with Shah Rukh Khan, the accomplished Bollywood actor has been giving us brilliant insights into the lives of celebrities, week after week. NO CLUTTER The show has been fairly quick to garner ratings. One of the reasons why it stands out is that it is clean of the clutter of promotional activities of upcoming films. It is understood that both Kher and the creators of the show didn’t want these promotional activities to hijack its novelty. As a result, the viewer is spared the torture of watching the same celebrities hopping from one show to another.
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So, when Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor are seen on all other reality shows promoting their film Haider, Kher talks to film director David Dhawan and his son Varun about the bond they share. The only exception was him inviting Parineeti Chopra and Aditya Roy Kapoor as they were his co-actors in Daawat-e-Ishq. Chopra and Kapoor came across as mature and sensitive individuals as opposed to their Koffee with Karan appearance, where both seemed at a loss for words. Of course, Kher has a personal connect with the show—he is the producer, and the tagline “Kuch bhi ho sakta hai” is also the title of a play he acted in. The play is an autobiographical account of Kher’s many successes and failures and how he took them in his stride. The show, too, has Kher sharing snippets from his life and his relations with the guests on his show. The episode in which he invited Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri as his guests was, by far, the best. It was a visual treat to see three of India’s most talented actors sharing their stories on the same platform. While Shah talked of his transformation from a shy school kid to an avid actor, Puri talked about the difficulties he faced in his early days in Delhi. Seeing the trio getting nostalgic about their National School of Drama days was a treat for viewers. There is something about Kher that makes even a shy person open up about intimate details of his life. A thorough gentleman, he knows how to make the guest comfortable. The veteran actor makes it a point to refrain from hitting on soft spots or highlighting any controversial statement made by the guest. As a result, the show does not fall into the crevices of mindless sensationalism—a tactic often resorted to by many talk show hosts these days. No efforts are made to bring back the ghosts of the past or elicit a saucy response. So, when Kangana Ranaut talked of a male star making comments about her career, Kher didn’t try to rake up a needless controversy.
UNKNOWN FACETS Although he speaks to people who have also been interviewed by others, Kher is able to bring out unknown facets of theirs. Shah Rukh Khan, for example, said his brother-in-law always threatens him about cheating on his sister, Gauri. Alia Bhatt, invited along with her father Mahesh Bhatt, was not quizzed on her general knowledge. Instead, she candidly spoke about her rapport with stepsister Pooja Bhatt. Cricketer Yuvraj Singh talked of his recovery from cancer and how everyone turned their backs on him during his illness. Sonam Kapoor did not speak about the fashion disasters of her colleagues, nor about herself being the style icon of the industry. Instead, it was about her equation with cousin Arjun Kapoor. What Anupam Kher does is to be a delightful document of the trials and tribulations of successful people. Its high point is candidness, not bitchiness, and this is where it is different from Koffee
There is something about Kher that makes even a shy person open up about intimate details. A thorough gentleman, he knows how to make the guest comfortable and refrains from hitting on soft spots.
with Karan. Kher interrogates warmly, but thoroughly. Special emphasis is laid on time periods so as to put things in context. Vidya Balan is asked when her mother finally gave in to her wishes of wanting to be an actress. Yuvraj Singh is asked how long he stayed with his father after his parents’ divorce, and so on. A second season of the show is already in the pipeline. Talks are also on to invite Big B, Salman Khan, and perhaps, Sachin Tendulkar. Life mein kuch bhi ho sakta hai.
DIFFERENT TAKE Kher chatting up Parineeti Chopra and Aditya Roy Kapoor. The show did not allow the actors to hijack it for the promotion of their upcoming film Daawat-e-Ishq
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Design
DESIGNS THAT MADE IMAGINATIVE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS, FONTS, GRAPHICS, COLOR AND SPACE TO LEAVE AN IMPRESSION By ANTHONY LAWRENCE
This oil on canvas by SHANKER GOJARE is a fusion of tradition and modernity. The motif chosen is very Indian, and the strokes are part traditional, part contemporary. But what impresses one is the style and use of colors, and especially the conch pattern on the bull. 44 VIEWS ON NEWS
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This imaginative world created by ELSA MORA makes use of paper cutting. Peep deeper and you find interesting icons. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a world?
In this cover designed by ARIJIT GANGULY, the imposition of plants and trees on the woman’s face lend an element of mystery to this story about a Tokyo housewife.
This curious installation in a Hong Kong mall makes liberal use of plants and flowers. Imaginatively created and painstakingly executed.
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He’s fun, vibrant and has a wacky sense of humor. Yet, he’s grounded and has even played peacemaker between communities BY R PARVATHY ALL him Dilli ka don. If you are a regular radio listener in Delhi, you would be familiar with his vibrant attitude, mesmerizing voice and impeccable imitation of others. Surrounded by two massive computers with Radio Communicative Software, two microphones and a desktop computer with his Facebook page open, Naved looks tense. But he grins and asks: “I am going to start the show with Hawa me udtha jaye. Do you like that song?” Absolutely. Meet multifaceted Naved, the man who has Delhi listeners twirled around his fingers. His four-hour evening show from 5 pm to 9 pm on Radio Mirchi was earlier christened, “Sunset Samosa” Now, it is simply a jingle by his name and the perfect getaway from agonizing traffic jams, yelling bosses, endless deadlines and life’s mess. His ‘murga’ show has become a sort of national gig, with other radio stations aping it in vain. From the streets of Dubai to the studios of Radio Mirchi, Naved has covered an entire gamut of situations and people, quite like a Bollywood masala flick. Belonging to Bugrasi, a small village in district Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, Naved is the eldest in the family besides two sisters. After a brief stay in Faridabad, where 46 VIEWS ON NEWS
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he was born, Naved’s family shifted to Jamia Nagar in New Delhi after his father became a faculty member at the Department of Engineering in Jamia Millia Islamia. His schooling followed by a Bachelor in Business Studies was completed in Jamia. Now, he stays with his family in Okhla. Belonging to a lower middle class family, it was natural that the onus of providing for the family fell on Naved. After a stint of jobs in Dubai, as a hawker, and Qatar, as a document controller, he returned to India to pursue a job as a customer care agent with Airtel. His tryst with mimicry started much before he became a RJ in 2004. As Airtel’s customer care agent, Naved chose to be different. while his colleagues resorted to talking to customers in the mundane routinized voice. He used different voices to handle different customers which hit the bull's eye since customers felt happy sharing their problems with him.
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fter a series of odd jobs in India and abroad, Lady Luck finally smiled on Naved. In 2004, Radio Mirchi started its RJ Hunt. Naved outshone 35,000 competitors and cleared his first round. After 11 more interview rounds and a grand finale, he became the winner of the first-ever RJ Hunt organized by a private FM channel. Ten years on, he’s a star and
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“Once, I played a prank on a friend on his wedding night. I, along with some friends hid about a dozen alarm clocks in his room, each set apart by six minutes. Their wedding night was ruined.” —– Naved, Radio Mirchi’s RJ
a favorite among the masses. Yet, he remains grounded. But what really catapulted him to new heights was his “murga” show. This involves calling up different people every day and engaging them in make-believe situations with hilarious consequences. But not many know that the famous “mirchi murga”, before it became a rage was aired only once or twice a year during festivals and holidays. Now, it is a daily affair.
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he expert prankster has years of experience to his credit. Known as a livewire among his friends, Naved enjoyed clowning around with friends, “Once we were ragging a couple of juniors in the university inside a classroom which we had bolted from inside. I had made the juniors sit in the ‘murga’
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style. Suddenly my friend alerted us that the principal was coming our way. He came and stated thumping on the door. I quickly unlocked the door and joined the juniors . The principal released me and the juniors and suspended my friends for ragging. It was hilarious.” So, what really sets the “murga” apart from other radio channels who conduct similar pranks? “The fact that you call it “murga” and not a prank call itself shows the difference. The “murga” is not about calling people and bothering them needlessly, it’s about creating situations which provoke certain reactions, but ultimately, gives joy to both the ‘victim’ and the listeners,” says Naved. Some of the “murgas” targeted social issues. Recently, the RJ called up Yaqub Sherwani in Pakistan and played a prank on him. In the process, Naved gave him a piece of his mind about Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s comment on taking over Kashmir from India. When Yakub understood the motive behind the call, he made excuses to wriggle out of it. Naved has also addressed communal and social issues. But ultimately, it is his narration of different plots related to everyday situations that endears him to listeners. “I was the jester of my group. The best part of growing up in the Jamia campus was keenly observing people and their language. I would mimic the same in front of my friends. Today that has translated into my RJ-ing style as well.” So does mimicry and playing pranks run in his family or is it something acquired? “My mother is a superb mimic plus a prankster. I guess it runs in our genes. Even at the age of 55, she can fool people with her voice by becoming a young woman, or a man.” Ask him what his favorite “murga” is and a childlike glee spreads across his face. “Once I did a “murga” where the person got angry and abusive and wouldn’t stop even after I had revealed my identity. So, to pacify him, I lied that Mirchi was offering a free washing machine to everyone who laughs at the end of their “murga”. After a three-second pause, the guy suddenly started laughing and then demanded the washing machine when I tried to end
the call. That was indeed memorable.” There are other funny episodes too. “Once, I played a prank on a friend on his wedding night. I, along with some friends, hid about a dozen alarm clocks in his room, each set apart by six minutes. Their wedding night was ruined and they refused to talk to me ever since…but their reaction was priceless,” says Naved laughing. “Another time, we went to the printing press to print our friend’s wedding card. I deliberately gave the wrong address of a park in Julena area in Jamia and distributed the same in about 250 households. On the said day, about 100 guests arrived all decked up in suits, kurtas and lenghas and looked nonplussed as to why there wasn’t any wedding as intended.” Then, there was a time when Mirchi offered “cool hampers” to the “murga victims”. Naturally, many started calling up, wanting to be deliberately fooled by me so that they could win the hamper...that’s the true Dilliwala attitude.” In between the “murga” gig, another one, phatto, was added. Talking in a Haryanvi-Gujjar mixed dialect, Naved narrates the story of different films, using completely different situations or characters. While the first season of phatto had Titanic, the second followed the cult romantic movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’s plot with rib-tickling results. “Phatto was a Eureka concept for me and my producer Sukriti. She is the actual brain behind the situations and dialogues.”
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ncidentally, Naved is a ladies’ man and makes no bones about it. His camaraderie with colleagues Jassi and Sukriti is easygoing. Be it aiding him with traffic updates, conducting contests or substituting him in his absence, they go all out to support him. He jokes: “I am just a helpless man who gets into a spot every time I have to choose between these two beauties, who fight to assist me in the show.” The girls make faces at his jibe. What has transformed FM radio by leaps and bounds is the inclusion of social media. Naved says: “Social media has made it easier for people to communicate with me.” It not only enriches the connec-
tion with listeners, but also helps in ascertaining new murga requests from readers. More so, if the issue has a social or national context. For instance, a Facebook post between a Hindu and a Muslim man during election time generated lot of negative opinion and had the potential of escalating into communal violence. This came to Naved’s notice. He used his wits and settled the matter by having a one-to-one conversation with them. Unlike the early 2000s, today, private FM channels have proliferated, ushering in stiff competition for listenership and advertisements. Moreover, listeners have also wisened up and demand content that is offbeat and entertaining. “We face competition from television as well. During IPL, our ratings go for a toss. But we’ll do something about it soon”, he assures. Naved’s show is clearly the undisputed winner amongst all radio stations and their shows according to different car track ratings. In fact, they are highest from 7.30 pm onwards when Naved airs the “murga”. “Mashallah, I have been very lucky to have maintained my top position. It is very humbling to see that people enjoy my show and the ‘murga’ so much.” For someone so popular, Naved, is refreshingly grounded. “Those who lose their heads following stardom fade away. The key is to be balanced and happy,” he says, as he winks at Sukriti. “Inshallah, my association with Delhi and the listeners will never end,” he says. It won’t as long as he tickles the funny bone and touches hearts.
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Tribute
Dr Stya Paul
Living a life for others Apeejay group is one of the biggest industrial houses. It wouldn’t have been so without the dedication, humaneness and love of a man who struggled in early life. His legacy is now being carried forward by his daughter, Sushma Paul Berlia
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r Stya Paul, a freedom fighter, industrialist, educationist and philanthropist, was the moving force behind Apeejay Stya Group and Apeejay Education Society, known for their quality and excellence. Born in 1919 to a small business family in undivided Punjab, Stya Paul was a brilliant student and won a scholarship for his matriculation exam. He secured admission to DAV College, Jalandhar, where he displayed extraordinary talent in Mathematics, securing first position in his BA (Hons). POLITICAL BEGINNINGS It was while studying M A Mathematics in Government College, Lahore, that he got drawn into the nationalist struggle. In August 1942, just after Stya Paul had returned to Jalandhar after securing a first division for his post-graduation, Mahatma Gandhi gave the Quit India Movement call. Paul was drawn into
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India’s independence struggle. Joining a group of young freedom fighters, he actively participated in organizing protest meetings and distributing antiBritish literature, despite being polio-stricken and on crutches. On Dussehra day in 1942, Paul’s house was raided by the police and he was arrested under the Defense of India Rules. He was lodged in Jalandhar Jail and was not even allowed to carry his crutches. Here, he came in contact with a large number of political prisoners, including S Karam Singh Kirti and Sardar Darbara Singh, who later on became the chief minister of Punjab. The 51-day prison experience toughened Paul and made him more fearless and determined. INDUSTRIOUS MAN Tragedy struck in 1944, when Paul’s father passed away suddenly—six years after his mother had died. This left him, as the eldest son, the responsibility of running the family business and looking after his large family of six younger brothers and sisters. He
coped with unimagined hardships during this period. Partition followed and it was some time before his business could resume its normal rhythm. During these difficult years, Paul proved his mettle, and developed the family concern, Amin Chand Pyare Lal, into one of the biggest industrial houses of the country. He renamed it Apeejay Group, with A, P and J representing Amin Chand Pyare Lal and Jalandhar respectively. Under his stewardship, the group diversified into steel rolling, steel foundry, pipe manufacturing, engineering goods, shipping, pharmaceuticals, construction, hotels, restaurants and tea gardens, to become one of the leading industrial houses of India. Dr Stya Paul, fondly called Sethji, recognized the great role industry could play in making the nation self-reliant and strong through industrial development and education. Towards this objective, he decided to set up non-profit, educational institutions across the country, where a scientific temper was inculcated along with values and an appreciation of Indian culture, arts and heritage. THEME FOR A DREAM It started as a small school in Jalandhar in 1967, and expanded to 13 schools and 16 institutions of higher learning under the aegis of the Apeejay Education Society. In 2010, Paul’s saw the realization of a lifetime dream when the Apeejay Stya University came up. It became a seat of global learning, blending technology and research with liberal arts. Meticulously planned and flawlessly executed, it carried forward his vision of value-based education and “learning how to learn for life”. Besides being associated with several social, cultural and professional bodies, he also helped the physically challenged and the needy with financial assistance and educational and vocational opportunities, thus enabling them to join the mainstream. Over the years, numerous awards and accolades were bestowed on him for transforming the lives of numerous people. Despite advancing age, he remained involved with Apeejay institutions well into
his nineties and passed away on June 7, 2010. FATHER’S DAUGHTER His legacy is now being carried forward by his daughter and only child, Sushma Paul Berlia. This leading woman entrepreneur and industrialist, like her father, has got many honors. She is the co-promoter and president of the Apeejay Stya & Svrán Group, a leading industrial and business house with diversified interests in India and abroad and is president of the Apeejay Education Society, which now has 29 schools and higher education institutions. She is also the chancellor and co-founder of the Apeejay Stya University. Berlia also became the president of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2005-06, being the first woman to do so. She also plays a leading role in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. She is also a governing body member of the National Board of Accreditation and served as chairperson, board of governors of NIT, Jalandhar, and member of board of governors of IIT-Roorkee. Besides this, she has held position of power in PHDCCI, ASSOCHAM and FICCI. But these are nothing compared to her perpetuating education of the girl child and women’s empowerment. In 1995, she represented India at the UN World Social Summit held at Copenhagen. She has been felicitated by CII for “Outstanding Contribution to Academia and Industry”, and by FICCI for “Outstanding Contribution to Education” in 2013. And in June 2014, at a glittering event at the House of Commons, London, Berlia was awarded for her contribution to Indian education. Talk about having a fulfilling life.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER (Top) Dr Sushma Berlia (Above) Dr Stya Paul
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Anchor Review
ARNAB’S HARANGUE This anchor’s interview with PPP spokesman Qamar Zaman Kaira showed him as intolerant and impatient BY SHOBHA JOHN
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F any trainee journalist wants to learn how not to conduct an interview, he should watch Times Now’s Arnab Goswami. While most TV audiences are, by now, used to his aggressive, biased and pointless heckling, his interview with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) spokesman Qamar Zaman Kaira in The Newshour Debate showed him at his worst. Not only was it embarrassing to watch him, he was so obnoxious that Kaira left the interview mid-way.
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The issue being debated was Kashmir, a hot potato between India and Pakistan, and PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto’s speech to party workers in Multan, where he said, “I will take back Kashmir, all of it and I will not leave behind a single inch of it….” While that statement grabbed front-page headlines, it was obvious that it was coming from a political novice, who has yet to cut his teeth in the hurly-burly of sub-continental politics. IMMATURE BILAWAL Even as Bilawal’s statement spawned many comments on Facebook and Twitter, most were lighthearted and dismissive, and made Benazir’s son the butt of jokes. While some compared his statement to Rahul Gandhi’s “escape velocity” one, others asked him to reclaim Bangladesh first. Even BJP leader Subramanian Swamy called him “immature” and said, “India is capable of destroying Pakistan but does not want a war.” It is in the light of this background that Arnab’s interview should be seen. If one was to leave aside its contents, the manner and style of questioning was objectionable. It started well, with a to-and-fro exchange of views. But it didn’t last long. Asked why Bilawal had made this statement, Kaira, as a good spokesman of the PPP, defended it, saying this had been the consistent stand of his party from the time of its founding president and chairman, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Arnab seemed dismissive and started interrupting him, as is his style. Kaira said it was their point of view, while Indians and the people of Kashmir had theirs. Point taken. Arnab, then, rightly said that the UN and the whole world had rejected this “directive” of Pakistan’s, whereupon Kaira said: “Gentleman, please be patient…. ” Arnab sarcastically remarked: “My name is Arnab.” Almost like a school bully. Kaira protested saying he was not letting him speak. From then on, the interview descended to a depth that made one cringe.
“I am not here to hear sermons….An anchor should put questions and hear my version. You may or may not agree.” —Qamar Zaman Kaira, PPP spokesman
LUDICROUS SITUATION Kaira increasingly started frowning. He looked confounded by the turn of events and the ludicrousness of calling someone for a TV debate and not letting him give his viewpoint. As Kaira waited for the next interruption and Arnab kept nodding sagely, the Pakistani asked: “Is it ok now? (to speak)” But Arnab, being Arnab, said rudely: “You paused, I didn’t.” This was taking on the tones of a gladiatorial fight. Kaira once again resumed the oft-repeated stance of Pakistan on Kashmir, whereupon Arnab said Pakistan had been “told again and again” about the official stand. A bristling Kaira said: “I don’t need to be told again and again by you.” As both hurled “Mr Kaira” and “Gentleman” at each other for the next few seconds, one wondered at the futility of this debate. “Please put me a question. Don’t give me a lesson,” Kaira once again said. Arnab, tongue-incheek said (yes!): “Don’t worry, Mr Kaira, I will give you a lesson if required”, and went on to talk about how Pakistan had been humiliated in three wars with India. While one admired and cheered Arnab for wearing his patriotism on his sleeve, his taking up cudgels with Kaira seemed misplaced, as he was just a party spokesman. As expected, Kaira got more miffed and said he was “not here to hear sermons”. And he said what many of Arnab’s guests would have liked to tell him on his face—“An anchor should put questions and hear my version. You may or may not agree.” Arnab barked: “Counter me factually.” Kaira fumed and asked: “Is this the way? You called me to your studio; put questions, be patient. If you VIEWS ON NEWS
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Anchor Review
UNENVIABLE TASK PPP spokesperson Qamar Zaman Kaira on The Newshour Debate on Times Now channel
don’t have the capacity to hear a different point of view, please don’t call us.” Bang on. IS THIS JOURNALISM? Even as Arnab tried to salvage the situation, Kaira said: “You are insulting me”. As he fumbled with his mike, Arnab taunted him: “If you choose to run away from my program, that is not my problem.” Kaira had smoke coming out of his ears by then, and his body language showed he was furious. “Put your question and I will wait,” he said, frowning. “I am quite amazed that you are questioning me like this.” Arnab retorted: “I am quite amazed you expect me to toe the Pakistani line.” This was ridiculous. If Arnab was trying to increase his TRP ratings, this was the wrong way to go about it. Kaira had had enough by now and he removed his mike and earphone with a “Thank you very
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much” even as Arnab said: “If you are running away, it is not my problem.” How rude and ungracious. Obviously, he hasn’t seen established channels abroad, where people are treated with respect, irrespective of their point of view. It is time Arnab changed his style of questioning if he wants to be taken seriously. While he is abrasive, that too can be a plus point if it elicits a response. But what response can one get if one feels bamboozled by an unreasonable anchor? What Arnab does not realize is that by now, viewers have caught on that he is totally biased against some panellists, while handling others with kid gloves. The reasons are best known to him. Some are not allowed to put across any viewpoint, as they are shouted down by Arnab, as was the case with Dr Ved Pratap Vaidik, the journalist who met LeT chief Hafiz Saeed. If one wanted to gleen anything about Vaidik’s meeting, all one had to do was watch NDTV’s Barkha Dutt with him. At this rate, Arnab will soon lose his viewership with the people who matter, and be left only with the rabble-rousers, who, anyway, love to see others getting pummelled. Arnab has forgotten what the job of a journalist is—to ferret out information, educate and in some small measure, entertain. And yes, to be fair.
Anchor Review
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immi Pasha wears a fairly confident look while reading news, a quality that every good anchor must have. She has a pleasing voice that adds quality to her voice-overs. Pasha wears the right attire, mostly western outfits, and carries herself really well on screen. However, what goes against her is the pace of reading news, which sometimes makes it difficult for the audience to understand the content. The viewers are left confused and they lose interest. This was the case in Pasha’s bulletin on Headlines Today on Monday at 10 am. The audience just couldn’t keep pace with the speed of her news reading and failed to comprehend the matter. Rating **** Pasha’s racy anchoring is awarded 4 out of 10 points from the TMM-VON panel
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ashish has grown as an anchor over the past one year. Having begun with bulletins and the show, The Social Network, she has progressed to more important shows like Agenda. The speed of delivery has always been a problem with her. But recently, she has made tremendous improvement in all quarters of anchoring. While she is conformable anchoring inside the studio, Kashish has also become adept in moderating special shows outside the comforts of the studio. On the day of Swachata Diwas, she moderated a show on manual scavenging in Valmiki basti, where most of the inhabitants are sanitation workers. Having made a space for herself in the anchoring world, Kashish now needs to work on her pace of delivery and switching between guests. Also doing a little more research on an issue should come in handy for making quick comments. As for her dressing sense, she looks beautiful in both western and Indian attires. Ratings ****** Kashish gets 6 points out of 10 from TMM-VON panel for the consistent improvement she has shown over the past one year.
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ne of the most promising anchors among English channels, Arunoday Mukharji of CNN-IBN has an excellent command over the language, and his impeccable pronunciation only adds to his delivery. The shortcoming in his anchoring is his lack of expression. Improving on the pronunciation and voice modulation fronts is suggested. Always looking dapper, Mukharji made a traditional appearance on Dussehra day in a green kurta for the bulletin at 1 pm. This added a festive air to his news segment. Rating ***** Mukharji’s expressionless news delivery gets 5 out of 10 points from TMM-VON panel.
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Ad review
Gopinath Menon
HONDA DREAM SERIES CD 110 he new Honda CD 110 commercial, featuring Akshay Kumar, seems to be breaking new barriers. The main barrier being the difficulty a prospective consumer faces in choosing between a Hero and a Honda. Two, searching for a key differentiator between the different brands in the same category of motorcycles. Both brands have aptly tried to capitalize on the pedigree, lineage and core values of the partnership, which lasted close to three decades. The partnership was responsible for revolutionizing the two wheeler market. It also separated the men from the boys. So, riding a mobike was hep and happening; whereas if you were on a scooter you were married and not keen on the female gender. However the strategies seem different now, with Hero focusing on big ticket media to build stature for the company brand. It relies on its association with Bollywood blockbusters, cricket and other big events. Ideally, the company should have capitalized on the ground strengths like dealer network and after-sales services instead. Honda on the other hand seems to be connecting with consumers on a relevance platform. Honda CD 110 has smartly demonstrated core values of sturdiness, design and economy through its ad featuring Akshay Kumar. The actor, playing a
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father, seems to assure the prospective buyer about the Honda lineage, which is synonymous with motorcycles in India. The ad works on two fronts: it persuades the prospect to believe in the company’s claim regarding the product, while making the user of the brand feel proud of it. This sense of pride is what builds the word-of-mouth endorsement. A positive word-of-mouth from the user is generally seen as more powerful than advertising. On the whole the Honda commercial inculcates a sense of pride in the prospective buyer. It subtly also connects with the social fabric of India by underlining its family values.
n a country where two-third of the 1.25 billion population is under 35; there is reason enough for advertisers to hawk products for which there is no demand. And deodorants are no different. As consumer mindsets are fleeting and faddish, hell has broken lose in the deodorant segment. Any sane and conscious male youth will tell you that when you are in your late twenties the only thing that matters is the fair gender. So, when you are hijacked by your hormones there is little chance that good sense will prevail. This inelastic need is what manufacturers and copy-cat marketers have taken advantage of. So far it was good; but as years pass by, the young adult male is more mature, and wants to move ahead with some tangible traits. A “me too” tag is what he dreads. All advertising of deodorants highlight the superficial aspiration and the unbelievable conquest. Time has told them that this no longer works. The first deodorant to acknowledge this gap in the market is “Vanessa Envy”. They have classically chosen the “natural” Irrfan Khan, who is a real performer and actor amongst stars. His expressive eyes, reliability and effortless dialogue delivery go down very well with the youth. He makes the entire communication believable. Of late the belief has been that normal deodorants do not attract girls, they just produce gas. The Envy commercial goes one step further and says: “Girls will only fall for attitude,” not for the deodorant. In the process he depositions all competing brands and destroys the myth that has been set up over the last two decades. Any brand which has the ability to challenge conventions and create disruption in the prospect’s mind will always emerge as a winner. This communication sheds light on where other deo ads have gone wrong and highlights the element of “insanity” in deo advertising—doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
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Sabash Reporter
Flash floods in Assam Reporter— Arindum Channel— Times Now
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ncessant rainfall wreaks havoc in Assam. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been put on red alert. Story: Torrential rainfall in Assam has triggered flash floods and landslides, killing many people and injuring others. The Assam State Electricity Board has cut down the supply of electricity following the flash floods in the capital
city of Guwahati. The worst affected areas in Assam, besides Guwahati, are Rajgarh, Goalpara, Kamrup and Boko. In fact, the Indian Metrological Department has predicted more rains in the coming days. Rescue work is underway, with NDRF and SDRF using mechanized rubber boats to move people out of the affected areas. Neighboring states such as Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have also been affected by the rainfall. Treatment: The camera’s focus on the reporter was delayed and he kept repeating facts. USP: The reportage was informative and as it was done from the affected area, it gave viewers the real picture.
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he palpable tension between the Vicechancellor of Jadavpur University and its students took a political turn, with the West Bengal government stepping in.
Story: The protests at Jadavpur University reached new heights with the protesters taking to the streets of Kolkata, demanding the VC’s resignation. Further developments indicate political intrusion
into the matter with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) deciding to carry out its own rally. TMC’s youth president and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee mocked the protesters, calling them “drug addicts”. Treatment: While the report was informative, it lacked balance. Including students’ viewpoint could have achieved that. USP: The reporter disclosed how TMC rubbished the motive behind the protests.
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Story: Those who feel that tipping the traffic cop will help them avoid paying a penalty are in for a surprise. Hyderabad police have now been equipped with bodywearable cameras that can record conversations between a cop and a citizen. They can even be monitored live by a policemen sitting in a control room. The cops 58 VIEWS ON NEWS
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will also be equipped with iPads and tablets with special pre-installed applications. The e-challan application aims to create a database of repeat offenders. The application may be connected to the anti-drunken driving campaign so that the licenses of repeat offenders can be revoked. Treatment: The program was balanced as it took the opinion of the traffic cops as well as senior policemen. USP: The report was well researched.
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