Whose Media?

Ironies of life used to be portrayed in Life magazine once upon a time, via vivid photographs of superior quality. Few of the most renowned photographers of their times like Alfred Eisenstaedt , Andreas Feininger , Margaret Bourke-White and John Dominis worked for Life.
The ironies included how images almost always were better than the real. [...]

Taken from a local paper, Asian Capital Examiner.

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Lets do a small news analysis. News item is published by BBC. Click here to read the story.
The headline says: “Woman ‘ordered to marry rapist’”. That’s news. Sure.
Next, lets read on.
“An Indian woman who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law is now being ordered by a Muslim council of community elders to marry him.”

That’s [...]

Will Time apologize?

The Time Magazine’s “Asian Hero” Gautam Goswami’s bail plea has been finally rejected. Goswami, whom Time said had the reputation for upholding the law, has been evading arrests in a multi-million dollar flood-relief scam!
Does the media have a duty to apologize even for the strongest opinions gone haywire? Or should it imply that [...]

The Agronomist
Radio Journalist’s Ear To, And Voice Of, A People
Directed By Jonathan Demme.
THINKFilm and HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films.
A Clinica Estetico production.

Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs
June 6, 2005
Radio, when used correctly, can get you killed.
It’s the most powerful, most personal medium. Nothing else on planet Earth can reach more oppressed people-the poorest, the illiterate and semi-illiterate-with the [...]

Circles Robinson comments on why the US govt wont allow its citizens to travel to a country this Summer. The country which does not have McDonald’s or Wal Mart or WMD!
The United States forbids its citizens from freely traveling to one country on Earth. Guess which one?
Summer’s just around the corner and many Americans will [...]

For all that we know of the multiparty democracy called Ethiopia, the situation is very characteristic, not of the social democratic way of living, but a reductionist approach to political democracy. Such imposition of democracy which claims either you are with us or with the enemy leads many economically oppressed countries to choose the path [...]