Media Today: Freedom of the Press or Freedom of the Purse?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- In a lecture titled 'Freedom of the Purse', Founder Editor of PARI, P. Sainath talks about how corporatisation of the media harms Indian democracy. This talk was given as part of the 1st Neelabh Mishra Memorial lecture which was organised at Delhi's India Habitat Center on the occasion of the 58th Birthday of journalist Neelabh Mishra who passed away earlier this year.
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P. Sainath, one of the most honest and brilliant journalist of our era. Anyone reading it please follow his reporting on farm sector and water crisis in drought prone regions of India.
GREAT...VERY NICE PRESENTATION ...
THE SUBJECT IS MEDIA'S SELL OUT TO POWER AND PREVILAGED PEOPLES ...
ITS EYE OPENING ... AND NICELY FOCUSSED ....
MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ...
NewscClickin thanks for sharing the speech.
Remarkable analysis of media and corporate workings . Very knowledgeable to common people .
P Sainath- " indian media is politically free but in prison by profits"
Digital journalism could be the answer to corporatized journalism
Neelabh ji was best
Can it get any more dismal? I love Sainath, never miss a single speech or lecture. But every time I listen to him, even though I laugh at his humorous asides, I cringe inside. Have we reached a point of no return? Is nothing unsullied anymore? In such a dark night of our freedom and liberties, what is the redeeming light? Where is the morning or the daylight that we yearn for? Tagore yearned for such a thing when he said our land is where the mind is without fear. Now, I am sorry to say, into that heaven of Freedom our country shall never awake, I am afraid.
Kishore Tejaswi true. it's heartbreaking.
As Sainath would tell you, he lives somewhere between cynical pessimism and fake optimism, in a territory called hope. I believe that at the source of that hope lie the inspirational struggles that constitute the everyday lives of everyday people which he covers. When the people decide that enough is enough, change won't take long. Our job, as the privileged, is to keep that bond with them strong and fight for them however we can. The foundation of that new society has already been laid in our constitution. We can and we will build it, piece by piece, struggle after struggle.
Well said and I am glad you are optimistic. Let us see if the people decide, or if the Constitution itself stands after 2019. However, what is heartening to see, and I see more of it these days, is the astounding unity and old-fashioned secularism amongst our children. Not the youth, mind you, who are as brainwashed and shallow as they come. No, I am talking about the high school kids, the younger generation. It is the only thing that gives me hope. Not the middle-class, not the urban crowds, not even the intelligentsia. And this, in spite of these kids having bigoted parents themselves. I can see it in the schools and local neighbourhoods. I just hope it lasts until they grow up and become mature citizens and end up shaming all the rest of us who are ostensibly mature adults today.