Yesterday P. Sainath writing in The Hindu alerted us to the fact that the much touted Press Council Report on “Paid News” was being archived without being made public. In response to his appeal, the Outlook Magazine made public the full text of the Press Council Report. After having perused the report can understand why the PCI may have wanted to archive it into cold storage. This report is an embarrassment to its authors and its sponsors.
The reasons are below:
- Not a single whistleblower in any of the media houses to expose Paid News, tells us of the degree to which Media in India is compromised
- That the Press Council failed to find even shred of hard evidence while in the same breath claiming its widespread stands testimony to this
- The bottomline on Paid News scandal is that for all the whistleblowing media does there are no whistleblowers inside Media house
- The Conclusion section of the report stands out for its lameness
- With all due respect to Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Press Council of India, a couple of part time Interns could have produced this report
- Frankly all the report seems to have done is complied information already in the Public Domain and reproduced articles and speeches
- Having speed read the 71 pages of much touted Paid News report must say it has been over hyped
- Circumstantial evidence that News items on Ashok Chavan were paid news – PCI opinion, Paid news scandal
- Times of India and CNN-IBN singled out for plugging in for Products – Paid News scandal
- Paid News Investigation Report praises “Mint” for code ethics
- Kudos to Outlook Magazine @SundeepDougal
- RT @SundeepDougal The ‘Paid News’ Report :Full text of controversial report by Press Council of India’s subcommittee http://bit.ly/9UJekn
Filed under: betrayal of aam admi, CNN-IBN Boycott
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One mediocre TV anchor who has made it big, not because of merit but courtesy early bird advantage in the nascent TV journalism, has a favourite cliche – “Hamam main sab nange hain.” It turns out that the man was brutally honest, speaking the truth for all, including himself.
In case some of you missed it, article by B Raman
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers40/paper3971.html
…………………..Thus, according to American investigators the LET and Al Qaeda were responsible for the Samjauta Express blast and the HUJI for the Mecca Masjid blast.If the American investigators, who have better sources in Pakistan, are correct, how can our investigators claim that some arrested Hindus were responsible for these incidents? Justice and fairplay demand a thorough investigation into the two different versions that have emerged from Indian and American investigators. While the American investigators have blamed the LET, Al Qaeda and the HUJI, Indian investigators have blamed the Abhinav Bharat. Both cannot be correct.
Here’s some extensive coverage of Paid News issue in the Indian blogosphere:
http://canarytrap.in/tag/paid-news