HASAN SUROOR : Articles

These days, hacks are nobs

BY HASAN SUROOR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/09/2014

British journalists come from richer and more privileged backgrounds than ever before, a new study shows.

Missing the Indian Muslim story

BY HASAN SUROOR| IN BOOKS |06/02/2014

The media has largely ignored the change that is sweeping India's Muslim community, and continues to play up the extreme voices because they make 'news'.

Can't resist the sexism?

BY HASAN SUROOR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/10/2013

As the trial of Rebekah Brooks begins the British media cannot resist the adjectives. But what's her flame hair got to do with her ethics as a journalist?

Please stop this jingoism

BY HASAN SUROOR| IN OPINION |11/08/2013

I can't imagine the BBC or any British news channel being so unabashedly propagandist as the NDTV, CNN-IBN and Times Now have been on this issue.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.