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Screen, preen, routine
Are the days
of the subtly portrayed Laajojis on Indian television over?
Has
physical perfection taken precedence over histrionic talent?
Sonali Krishna - www.indiantelevision.com |
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Carrie
Jaisi Koi Nahin?
HBO INDIA has five
more seasons to show of Sex and the City (SATC), but it may as
well junk the idea. The primary audience of the television series
is already in mourning. ‘‘I’m feeling widowed,’’
wails Ruchika Kapoor, a 27-year-old entrepreneur from New Delhi, as
she contemplates the end of SATC, the sixth and last season of which
just concluded in the US and Europe.
Sonia Faleiro -
The
Indian Express |
How
about a poll code for TV news
Another certainty: the
trivial will occupy as much TV space as the substantive and will
be debated with equal seriousness.
Shailaja
Bajpai - The
Indian Express |
Why
cricket needs Mandira
You might hate her or love her, but you can't deny that Mandira
Bedi has done more for the cause of cricket than what she's done to
noodle straps. That may not be saying much, considering not too
many women are seen in noodle or spaghetti straps, but many more women
are watching cricket.
Parul Gupta - The
Times of India |
Character,
plot, drama: the fine art of story-telling
Television
is dominated by women scriptwriters. Unfortunately, the big screen
hasn’t been quite as friendly to women.
Aarti
Shetty -
The Financial Express
(Readers
who find this article interesting may also be interested in
- Qalam
- India's first TV Writers' Forum & Workshop) |
Dagger
Drawn
Dear
Rajdeep
THE past week has been tremendously entertaining for two reasons:
cricket and stars in politics. Regarding
the current cricket mania, I agreed to go on NDTV’S The X Factor
for what I was given to understand was a light-hearted look at the
game. Imagine my surprise when I reached the studio to find Renuka
Chowdhury and Ritu Beri (both close friends) on the same show!
Nina Pillai -
The Indian Express |
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Broadcasting:
Information or entertainment?
The discussion of press issues must
contend with the inherent and essential difference that sets apart
broadcast media from print. While print continues to serve as a staple
of journalism, television
and radio have now become among the most powerful forces in the world,
transforming societies in a most revolutionary way. As advances in
communication technology continue to demonstrate the dynamism of broadcast
media, we can only imagine the greater impact they can have on human
discourse and development.
Melinda Quintos de Jesus - Philippine
Journalism Review |
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The
Haiti case demonstrates that media lies prevail
The false "resignation" of Haitian Jean Bertrand
Aristide demonstrates how the media deceives the citizen-consumer
of news all over the planet, no matter the country. The
Arabs, at least, have Al-Jazeera TV, but in Latin America and
the rest of the "Third World" there’s no stopping
the big monsters of the media.
Ernesto Carmona - Digital Granma (Cuba)
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Feeling
Blue? Don't Turn to TV
Television ought
to be a sure-fire cure for depression. After all, it's a
24-hour entertainment machine with dozens and dozens of choices-shouldn't
that do the trick? Of course, some people would call it a 24-hour
crap dispenser, those cranks. And yet the fact is TV can be amazingly
ineffective at banishing depression. Instead, it pushes prescription
antidepressants like Paxil and Wellbutrin, as if to admit its own
defeat as a cure or even a palliative. Maybe someone will start an
antidepressive channel, but there would probably be something depressing
about it.
Tom Shales - TV
Week |
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Is
cross-media happy media?
There’s one
thing guaranteed to make your rivals in the media industry go apoplectic:
claim to have done something first.
Ian
Quinn- Media Week (UK)
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As
one searches the web for quality articles, one comes across many sites
with content which requires registration (though free), to access.
Featuring an article a week from such sites... in our new section
Patience Pays |
For
Arabs, It's Not Yet Must-See TV
At a time when anti-Americanism seems to pervade every
street and living room in the Middle East, Al
Hurra, or "the Free One," is making its bid for Arab
interest. The 5-week-old Arabic-language satellite television channel
is the U.S. government's $62-million effort to reach young Arabs.
So far, the target audience is skeptical, at best.
Megan K. Stack
- Los Angeles Times |
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