Journalism
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Society
Book Review: Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
The author reviews Nick Davies’s Flat Earth News, which he calls excellent, drawing on his own experience of Pakistani journalism. He uses the book’s account of how the millennium bug…
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The (tiny) knife
Rebutting Deborah Orr’s Guardian column on the ‘tiny knife’ used in a beheading, the poster argues she is wrong on the facts, since the Caliphate has advanced weapons, and that…
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Politics
“Aapko toh khatra nahin hua?”
Building on Anand Soondas, the poster notes that elites say foreign media unfairly target India over rape, while the Badaun sisters’ case barely reached Delhi’s front pages, and adds his…
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“I accept being called a traitor”
Wishing a wounded Geo TV journalist a full recovery, the poster reproduces his statement rejecting the ‘traitor’ label and the ‘good and bad terrorists’ distinction. The poster adds that the…
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Society
How to crush a woman (use a woman-rock)
Angrily introduces a reproduced piece on how columnist Maureen Dowd, in the poster’s reading, helped destroy Monica Lewinsky’s reputation in 1998 and later benefited from the story, asking how a…
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The (im)moral Maharajah
The poster argues that adultery between a journalist and a politician is a private matter, that paid news already undermines neutrality in Indian media, and that it is nonetheless amusing…
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Politics
Why Hamid Mir was shot..
A comment on why the Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was shot, crediting him for publicising Balochistan while allowing that he was haughty and nationalist at times, followed by extracts including…
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Sardar Ahmad
A note on the killing of Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmad and his family in Kabul, with the poster’s bitter comment on the Taliban and the Afghan suspicion of the ISI.
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Politics
Fighting dirty
A note on Teesta Setalvad’s press release rebutting the Gujarat Crime Branch affidavit on fund misuse, with the poster saying no even-handedness can be expected from the press or her…
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Politics
Mr AK-272 takes aim at media
A comment criticising Arvind Kejriwal’s threat to jail media persons said to promote Narendra Modi for money, comparing it to Nehru’s talk of hanging businessmen and calling it a bad…
