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What were you doing when Om Puri was being ‘killed’ on super crimetime?
If the report of the brilliant Om Puri not being able to come out of the trauma of a very public humiliation by Arnab Goswami on ‘Times Now’ is true, …
POLL: Should FDI cap in media be enhanced?
With the economic downturn threatening to turn into a full-blown recession and with the finance minister reduced to going around the world with a hat in hand, the Congress-led UPA …
How TV channels will cover Aishwarya’s baby
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: The priorities of the Indian media are in extreme sharp focus courtesy Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju, who told the world just what he …
Will you buy a used crystal ball from these men?
Astrologers, palmists, numerologists, soothsayers, gemmologists and assorted fortune-tellers are supposed to reassure us about the future. But television bosses, especially in Hindi, seem to have decided that they can only …
With so many polls, somebody had to get it right
Duck’s eggs, it is said, are tastier than hen’s eggs. But more people eat hen’s eggs because, well, the hen lays its eggs and advertises its feat, while the duck …
It’s their opinion that they have done an exit poll
Exit polls are said to be more reliable than opinion polls in gauging the mood of the electorate since pollsters catch respondents immediately after they have cast their ballot. But …
The widest exit poll sign is 40, narrowest is 3
ALL INDIA Star-AC Neilsen: UPA 199, NDA 196 CNN-IBN-CSDS: UPA 185-205, NDA 145-160 India TV-C Voter: UPA 189-201, NDA 183-195 Headlines Today: UPA 191, NDA 180 The Times of India: …
All the ole faithful can concede is a slim lead
Rajat Sharma‘s India TV has given the BJP and the NDA a slight edge over the Congress and the UPA, respectively, in an “opinion poll” conducted by over 200 reporters. …
CHURUMURI POLL: A Congress-BJP government?
The general elections are clearly just days away from being announced, as a flurry of boastful and wasteful government advertisements in newspapers and on television seem to suggest, and one …
‘Do terrorists sit around watching television?’
Like night follows day, the media coverage of the terror attack on Bombay has resulted in the 21st century ritual of biting the hand that feeds the news. After lapping …
Eight-and-a-half lessons from trust vote tamasha
1) Before the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement (not “deal”, as Pranab Mukherjee pointed out) lights up a single 60-watt bulb, it has caused a tectonic change in our politics. There …
The only place black magic works is in your mind
When he was dumped by the JDS for a second time last November, the BJP’s B.S. Yediyurappa provided an obscurantist spin to his physical wellbeing by claiming that he was …
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