Media In India/elsewhere

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<b>Indian media not aggressive: Editors </b>
New Delhi, Nov 17: <b>Indian media lack intelligence and mostly use their power against soft targets, some of the country's top journalists said today in a critical assessment of their job. </b>
 
In a frank admission, they said the media rarely used their "aggression" against corporates because of the fear of losing advertisement revenue.
 
"For politicians, media are too aggressive. But when it comes to corporates, there is great reluctance to put them under scanner," Outlook Chief Editor Vinod Mehta said during a media seminar held by media school ISOMES.
 
But Indian corporates needed to have "some slice" of the media's aggression, Mehta remarked, citing an Outlook story on chocolate worms.
 
IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai said <b>Indian media were loaded with furious energy but lacked intelligence. </b>  <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->
 
<b>"The problem is we want to be ultra aggressive. But we simply don't have substance," he said.</b>  <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> 
 
Sardesai, however, <b>praised</b>  <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->  the media's role as an anti-corruption watchdog. Newspapers rarely exposed corruption in public offices before 1975, he remarked.
 
In his critique, Tehelka CEO Tarun Tejpal found <b>Indian media "more noisy than aggressive." </b>
 
<b>"We are very good at hitting at soft targets, and that's a disaster," </b>he said as he warned the media against becoming part of the nexus between money and power.
 
<b>Star News CEO Uday Shankar also spoke about what he called a selective approach in news coverage</b> as he agreed with the view that media seldom hit corporates. (Agencies)
  
Published: Thursday, November 17, 2005  <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->