BLOGS

Ranjona Banerji: Are edit pages in newspapers an exercise in futility? Posted on 17 Jul,2015 | under BLOGS It is not just about gravitas and old people. Sometimes, newspapers like to take a stand and the edit page gives them that chance, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Are journalists taking the shortcut of gathering news via social media? Posted on 14 Jul,2015 | under BLOGS The masks people wear make can make social media a false god at the altar of truth, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Imagine if the media had ignored the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh completely? Posted on 10 Jul,2015 | under BLOGS This is a sad reality of life if you live it by the media. It can turn on you for not fulfilling you promises or potential as it did with the India Against Corruption and its metamorphosis into the Aam Aadmi Party. Or it can wait for you to trip up as it has done with the BJP, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Media finally wakes up to ‘Vyapam’ scam Posted on 07 Jul,2015 | under BLOGS My very sad moral of the story to all my fellow journalists who are in love with Narendra Modi is this: it’s only going to get worse, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Does anyone remember what the Lalit Modi escapades are about any more? Posted on 03 Jul,2015 | under BLOGS The facts of Lalit Modi case – whatever they were – have long been lost. We jump from new allegation, revelation and expose night after night and have possibly gone so far from where we started that there seems to be no way back writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Fair, upright, always objective, never biased columnists to the PM’s rescue Posted on 30 Jun,2015 | under BLOGS From Indian Express to New Indian Express to firstpost.com to The Times of India and more, they tell us how Lalit Modi is misunderstood and misjudged, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Do we fight or do we bend and crawl to ensure our salary cheque every month? Posted on 25 Jun,2015 | under BLOGS Most large newspaper groups felt it easier to give in than to fight. Interestingly, it is not far different from the way corporate and managers hold sway over newsrooms today, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Sycophantic media confused on govt reaction to Lalit Modi imbroglio Posted on 23 Jun,2015 | under BLOGS It is possible that to save our politicians and government, the focus will shift entirely to “cleaning up cricket” while everyone pretends that our politicians are squeaky-clean idols, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Damn the government, and get damned to death Posted on 16 Jun,2015 | under BLOGS The Jagendra Singh case in UP represents total contempt for the law by the police and the political class as also the great difficulty of confronting those in power, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Should the media highlight or ignore the PM’s comments in Bangladesh? Posted on 09 Jun,2015 | under BLOGS The inner details of the land border agreement with Bangladesh were left to newspaper columnists and to channels like Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha TV to discuss, notes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Is there enough scandal in sports journalism? Posted on 02 Jun,2015 | under BLOGS Sports and general journalists cannot sometimes see the woods for the trees, writes Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji: Not enough on heat wave Posted on 29 May,2015 | under BLOGS We cannot possibly boast of how we have entered the 21st century as a nation and still determine that 2000 people dead in South India is of little concern to people living north of the Vindhyas, writes Ranjona Banerji