Saturday, January 09, 2010

Indian Media's expose` or political party's sting on media moghuls ?

A recently circulated email stated how most of the news organisation are being by some particular business group or 'supported' or unoffically controlled by individuals.

Though it could be quite interesting for anyone seeking material to substantiate criticism of media in daily life, I would view it as how much constrained journalists are to bring out shades of truth as long as they serve in any organisation.

Once out of the organisation, even the readers who expect so much from them may not find even a little worth in reading such journalists' write up.

And, on practical side, one can never deny the fact that every organisation needs finance to run its show and for that it has to bear the influence of outside forces just like any other business organisation.

Even if such a 'revealation' or information is publicised by private platforms like blogs or emails, the general public should appreciate that at least something is coming out for the betterment of society off an on!

Otherwise, everyone is entitled to have its own view. I cannot obstruct someone's freedom to speech and expression as is available to the media persons as a fundamental right under Indian constituion.

Who owns the media in india ?
The Email stated advising --A VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE...ONE MUST READ--headlined "Who owns the media in India ?" stated:

Recent Gujarat election have witnessed unaccountable money
paid to media persons of both, print and electronic by Saudi
Arabia to discredit Modi and the Hindutva forces, which
Media did very faithfully without success.

There are several major publishing groups in India , the
most prominent among them being the Times of India Group,
the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The
Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu
Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group,
the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran
group.

Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.


NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of
Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has
developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan
President has allowed only this channel to be aired in
Pakistan .

Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash
Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India. His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters.

India Today which used to be the only national weekly which supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist
Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in
US.. The Church annually allocates $800 million for
promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep
Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.


Times group list:
Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust,
Femina, Vijay Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more...

Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World
Christian Council¢ does 80 percent of the Funding, and an
Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.


Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by
St. Peters Pontifical Church Melbourne.


Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have
changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is
working in Collaboration with Times Group.

The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been
recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland .. N. Ram's wife is a Swiss national.

Indian Express: Divided into two groups. The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart.

Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao.

Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily very recently.


The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of
India.

Kairali TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India
(Marxist)

Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.

Gujarat riots that took place in 2002 where
Hindus were also burnt alive, Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for NDTV at that time got around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover only Muslim victims, which they did very faithfully. Not a single Hindu family was interviewed or shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive, it is reported.


Tarun Tejpal of tehelka.com: Tehelkacom regularly gets blank cheques from Arab countries to target BJP and Hindus only, it is said.

The ownership explains the control of media in India by
foreigners. The result is obvious.

PONDER OVER THIS. NOW YOU KNOW WHY EVERY ONE IS AGAINST TRUTH, HOW VERY SAD.

Please pass this on to as many as possible. Let them know
who feeds them with biased news and information- yet call
themselves secular," the email concluded.

Surely, it would interest a lot of media critics take cudgles against their favourite punching bag. But still one tends to put a question to them: "What if tomorrow there is NO MEDIA?"
-- RegardsChaudhary Sandeep Datta

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

My eight-day holiday

Getting a holiday has been as difficult for me as it could be for an increment in the news organisation I work for. But that's part and parcel of a journalistic life, I believe.

It is quite difficult to explain what actually I did during all these holidays. Still, I wish to so that at least I could understand much before I could explain.

First day, Dec.28, 2009
As I had spent the previous day in much excitement, I wanted to perform or rather live every moment of my each day as per my solid plan. I wanted to make most of it.