Not even a month has elapsed since the The Tehelka issue on the violence in Gujarat.
The fact that Ravana¿s religious side had to be introduced in a news story with some surprise reveals more than just ignorance.
The Chief Minister said it was pressure from media and those who kept the candles lit said a thank you to the media.
The average Brahmin whom Outlook contacted intrigues me. Does he exist, or is it an easy, lazy way in which the idea of public opinion is used,
Can a newspaper campaign alone change a bus driver’s behaviour? Not any more than a newspaper alone can bring down a government.
Not many would cavil with journalists being called a decapitated avian species known more for succulent legs and poor heads.
But what of just letting it go by. What about not being in the celebration business?
Only occasionally, if at all, does The Telegraph display the chutzpah and character that separated it from the other newspapers.
When one is but a mortal, the truth that necessarily "involves us all" even when staring at us, has a peculiarly wanton habit of eluding oneself.
But how to address sources? And what does the form of address on-air tell us about the relationship that the journalist shares with the source?