Dumb headlines and measured responses
Boston Herald printed an AP news story last week with a dumb headline “Hindus lament divine case of erectile dysfunction” to which HAF had a very sensible and measured response. I was struck by...
Category: Media Related
HIV-positive patients *real* number may be 1/3rd of estimate…
Back in January of this year, I wrote about the disturbing tendency of media to let sensationalism get the better of accuracy and balance in the chase for headlines. The topic was AIDS and...
Lets shoot the messenger
I read this headline earlier this morning and thought it was a joke… Govt mulls ban on Orkut But apparently not… “The (Shiv) Sainiks vandalised a cyber cafe in Thane, Mumbai and demanded a...
This gets curiouser and curiouser…
A few days ago I wrote this semi-serious post wondering whether I had missed the riots following the Mumbai blasts, the attack on Akshardham and the blasts in Varanasi… The post was prompted by...
The great joke that is Indian media – part 2 *must read*
Thanks to Shadow Warrior on whose blog I first came across this extraordinary piece of reporting: “Who says Indian Media isn’t biased?“*about the mass conversion of Dalits into Buddhism last Sunday in Mumbai. After...
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