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A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Whilst such a response as “penalising measure” only shows their petulance at Best and their propensity for autocracy at worst..
…I think that should be the end of it. Bringing even a single organisational lawsuit, let alone a class-action: Against the ‘Union of India’ is an exercise in futility. This will just force them to move on to the next thing which, for all ya know — might be even worse than this.
The budget for Central Government ads across national newspapers combined must not be more than the fund reserved for janitorial duties in a single major Railway Board, is it? ?
At young age we used read the HINDU paper while having morning coffee for over 20 years or so in Madras, in Bangalore, for the past 15 years Im reading TOI, I always felt both of them are controlled by realestate mafia, pro congress, they need to change the way they run the paper.
Is this the reason TOI started quiz for its readers?
Just not-too-long-ago: I read TOI® in which there “credible-enough-to-get-a-book-published” regional journo painted the incumbent CM of Uttar Pradesh as an innocent-target of a “murderous attack”( direct-quote) — and THAT TOO in his “firebrand-sage”( oxymorons FTW!) era.
Perhaps, you are just extrapolating the local-/regional-news coverage of South India to the national ones. Don’t forget, TOI® is the sister-concern of “Times® ?” — the very same, much-promoted outlet that keeps dubbing Kerala as “the exclave of Pakistan”( paraphrased).
News papers have a vested interest. They have a tilt. They are not always objective.
They try to mobilise public opinion for a political party. For this they take money . They are not honest people that they pretend
…And pray tell, how’s your generic soliloquy relevant here?
Otherwise, I can also mutter that: Nobody in the whole of Civilisation is honest, least of all the so-called “religious leaders” unlike their pretense.
And where is the written rule that every Newspapier should get government adds. Stop sulking.
But there’s also no written rules that what’s and what’s not Indian culture and morals and yet..
…People try to enforce it all the time. Take the ever-notorious CBFC, for instance.
The crux of this argument lies in an economic theory. Doesn’t mean it’s an ironclad-argument. It doesn’t need to.
It is better to give more government ads to vernacular press for them to come up. A lot of unbiased & ethical reporting originate from it. In fact most. We should also not doubt the reach of this section of media among people.
During Emergency period, Sanjay Gandhi asked AIR to ban the songs of Kishore Kumar and asked Doordarshan to ban the movies of Dev Anand and Gulzar. And they were all done due to personal attitude rather than national. If they stopped advertisement for The Hindu, I will totally support that, the reason being this news papers only on negative news and biased in their approach. As they got paid by Congress, they don’t need govt funding for advertisements.
Your concluding statement aside, are you sure that The Hindu® is a state-run( “PSU”) news outlet?
Besides, any evidence about such “direct” instructions to pre-Prasar Bharti®, non-autonomous and out-and-out erstwhile “media wings” of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting? Above all, did the Minister of I&B ensure that they were carried-out duly?
When the Advertisements are reaching faster in electronic media now, there is no need of putting the same in print media except for detailed official communication. It is really pity that most of the national level newspapers are after catchy advertisements for the sake of revenue. While the news contents are 40 percent, the remaining pages are full of all sorts of advertisements which was not so about few decades back.
“…few decades back” is the only operative-part of your screed.
BJP always tries to portray that they are better than the Congress. But when they are caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they are always like – It happened during the Congress time, so will happen now too.
Whilst such a response as “penalising measure” only shows their petulance at Best and their propensity for autocracy at worst..
…I think that should be the end of it. Bringing even a single organisational lawsuit, let alone a class-action: Against the ‘Union of India’ is an exercise in futility. This will just force them to move on to the next thing which, for all ya know — might be even worse than this.
The budget for Central Government ads across national newspapers combined must not be more than the fund reserved for janitorial duties in a single major Railway Board, is it? ?
At young age we used read the HINDU paper while having morning coffee for over 20 years or so in Madras, in Bangalore, for the past 15 years Im reading TOI, I always felt both of them are controlled by realestate mafia, pro congress, they need to change the way they run the paper.
Is this the reason TOI started quiz for its readers?
“realestate mafia []”, “pro Congress”???
Just not-too-long-ago: I read TOI® in which there “credible-enough-to-get-a-book-published” regional journo painted the incumbent CM of Uttar Pradesh as an innocent-target of a “murderous attack”( direct-quote) — and THAT TOO in his “firebrand-sage”( oxymorons FTW!) era.
Perhaps, you are just extrapolating the local-/regional-news coverage of South India to the national ones. Don’t forget, TOI® is the sister-concern of “Times® ?” — the very same, much-promoted outlet that keeps dubbing Kerala as “the exclave of Pakistan”( paraphrased).
News papers have a vested interest. They have a tilt. They are not always objective.
They try to mobilise public opinion for a political party. For this they take money . They are not honest people that they pretend
…And pray tell, how’s your generic soliloquy relevant here?
Otherwise, I can also mutter that: Nobody in the whole of Civilisation is honest, least of all the so-called “religious leaders” unlike their pretense.
And where is the written rule that every Newspapier should get government adds. Stop sulking.
Newspaper* There! FTFY ☺️
Indeed. ??????
But there’s also no written rules that what’s and what’s not Indian culture and morals and yet..
…People try to enforce it all the time. Take the ever-notorious CBFC, for instance.
The crux of this argument lies in an economic theory. Doesn’t mean it’s an ironclad-argument. It doesn’t need to.
It is better to give more government ads to vernacular press for them to come up. A lot of unbiased & ethical reporting originate from it. In fact most. We should also not doubt the reach of this section of media among people.
Some newspapers made it a point to criticize, well beyond the requirements of honest journalism.
…And the relevance of this persecutory notion is?
During Emergency period, Sanjay Gandhi asked AIR to ban the songs of Kishore Kumar and asked Doordarshan to ban the movies of Dev Anand and Gulzar. And they were all done due to personal attitude rather than national. If they stopped advertisement for The Hindu, I will totally support that, the reason being this news papers only on negative news and biased in their approach. As they got paid by Congress, they don’t need govt funding for advertisements.
Bwahahahahaha!
Your concluding statement aside, are you sure that The Hindu® is a state-run( “PSU”) news outlet?
Besides, any evidence about such “direct” instructions to pre-Prasar Bharti®, non-autonomous and out-and-out erstwhile “media wings” of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting? Above all, did the Minister of I&B ensure that they were carried-out duly?
When the Advertisements are reaching faster in electronic media now, there is no need of putting the same in print media except for detailed official communication. It is really pity that most of the national level newspapers are after catchy advertisements for the sake of revenue. While the news contents are 40 percent, the remaining pages are full of all sorts of advertisements which was not so about few decades back.
“…few decades back” is the only operative-part of your screed.
BJP always tries to portray that they are better than the Congress. But when they are caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they are always like – It happened during the Congress time, so will happen now too.
Indeed.
However, as much bad as INC is: BJP is beating them at their formulae neck-to-neck!