Posted inPOV
“Editorial, You’re F***ed”
The reference to journalism as “content” implies that journalism isn’t about telling people things they need to know, but about grabbing as many eyeballs as possible.
Posted inPop Culture
The Life of a Journalist in Four More Shots Please! (and Other Chick Flicks) is Fake News
Four More Shots Please! treats Damini no differently from the women journalists who have come before her in the chick flick genre. Like Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, Damini is not just an unlikeable character – her many flaws are framed as aspirational.
Posted inPeople
India’s Angry Poet and Other Stories
While CP Surendran’s early work could be seen as the walk away, in his new poems he firmly occupies the inside of the fence, and looks prepared to observe and contemplate.
Posted inPOV
Five Reasons We All Need to Start Paying for Our News Again
Fake news has become a scourge, publications are more beholden to advertisers than readers, and it’s more lucrative to cater to echo chambers than to actually inform and guide. The time has come to resume paying for news, irrespective of political leanings.
Posted inGender
Why Women Like Tavleen Singh Choose Not to be a Part of #MeToo
Journalist Tavleen Singh has reduced #MeToo to a bunch of well-heeled urban women complaining over a bit of workplace harassment. But it is actually Singh and her ilk’s privilege that has helped them rise above the rampant sexism, which held back so many of their peers. That continues to be an obstacle for younger women.
Posted inPop Culture
What Indian Media Can Learn From The Post
Steven Spielberg’s The Post, is a powerful appeal for a brave media, and even braver owners. It’s a lesson that media owners desperately need and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Posted inPOV
Jamal Khashoggi, and the Thankless Life (and Death) of Journalists
Informing the public at the cost of their personal safety and liberty, journalists walk a razor’s edge. But what’s worse than our increasing disregard for the freedom of press? The fact that we continue to enjoy the benefits of a free press – but don’t want to sign up for the fight that is required to preserve it.
