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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 01:15 AM | November 13,2009
The media business has always been viewed as something that can influence opinion and behaviour and the Indian approach has hitherto been to bar and, in cases where it is allowed, tightly regulate, foreign investment in media
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 10:40 PM | October 08,2009
In the contemporary media scenario the nexus between media and politicians has been quite convenient for promoting their respective interests
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 09:05 PM | September 10,2009
It’s telling that in this list of 122 orders, an almost equal number of orders have been given on content violations related to advertisements (45) and news (47)
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 12:44 AM | August 07,2009
There are two things about reality shows that attract viewers and generate controversy: the concept of reality or realism; and the shock effect
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 01:15 AM | July 24,2009
Entertainment, whether via a nation’s airwaves, popular magazines, or newspapers, is the most pervasive mass media genre
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 12:51 AM | July 10,2009
How we define news and information is debatable, but it is clear that the evolution of television news channels has changed the way we see and perceive news
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 09:29 PM | June 25,2009
Next-gen media professionals need to be equipped with more than medium-specific skills. They need to have knowledge to understand the communication processes in the broad socio-political and economic perspective
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 09:31 PM | June 11,2009
Television news channels seem obsessed with viewership ratings. And other news media with readership ratings
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PN Vasanti 10:11 PM | May 16,2009
The results clearly show the media as a forum for fighting elections lost out and voters are wise enough not to be swayed by what they see and hear on TV and read in the newspapers
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 12:27 AM | May 15,2009
The analysis of March and April newspapers and news channels shows that Varun Gandhi was one of the most covered politician
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 09:44 PM | April 30,2009
One reason why media houses commissioned polls was to get an objective picture of how citizens felt and pegged discussions around this
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 10:08 PM | April 16,2009
In their preoccupation to report who and what our parties and candidates are doing, somehow the media seems to have forgotten its own agenda-setting role.
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 11:08 PM | April 02,2009
Since the last general election, coverage priorities and newsworthiness have been redefined by increasing competition among news channels
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 01:15 AM | March 20,2009
An analysis of prime time of six news channels shows that the violation of this law regarding advertisement time is more the norm than the exception
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Fine Print | PN Vasanti 11:12 PM | February 05,2009
The emphasis on local news by Hindi newspapers compared with their English dailies, whose outlook is more international, accounts for the growing popularity of local language dailies in the country today
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