What women shouldn’t read
Avoid the suggestions in most women’s magazines. Avoid books that promise to ‘empower’. Avoid writings that will help you ‘understand’ men. Mita Kapur argues a case for reading for your pleasure — not for that of the society.
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How not to report terrorism
The Indian television coverage of the Mumbai terror strikes left much to be desired. Senior broadcast journalist and media researcher Venkata Vemuri analyses the areas of weaknesses and finds no excuse for the substandard reportage of such a serious issue.
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In these times, Britons trust Beeb best
Despite the Crowngate and Blue Peter scandals earlier this year, 61 per cent of respondents to a British Journalism Review-YouGov poll said they trusted BBC journalists “a great deal or a fair amount”, ahead of ITV, Channel 4 and up-market reporters, and way ahead of red-top and mid-market newspapers. That’s the good news. The bad news is… well, read on.
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‘Good journalism isn’t dead. It’s terribly ill’
There is a black cloud hanging over the head of the fourth estate and it is smothering journalism — surely, and not slowly. It’s PR that Nick Davies, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Flat Earth News, is talking about.
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‘Media must uphold human rights and social justice principles’
Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. The author of Islam and the Secular State addresses the role of media in upholding the principles of rights and social justice and the problems with embedded journalism.
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The Church and Oprah
At the heart of a YouTube-led controversy stands Oprah Winfrey, one of the world’s most popular media figures, charged with threatening Christianity. In this article which first appeared in ReligionDispatches, Gary Laderman says there’s every reason to be concerned about the Church of Oprah. Because it’s part of a larger competing religious culture: celebrity worship.
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The road not taken
Could the Iraq war have been prevented had the American media asked the right questions? How do conservative media commentators frame the actions of different religious communities? Does the media pay due attention to history? Mike Ghouse reflects on the political impact of mainstream media decisions.
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About a war
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq lays bare the psychology of the ongoing self-censorship in the American media. There was not so much a conspiracy of silence about the war as an ideological refusal by the media to listen, see, and ask. Rohit Chopra reviews Greg Mitchell’s book.
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