Sometimes the press shows up in full strength at an event, asks lively questions --- and then nothing appears the next day.
The incident reflects on the state of the Indian media as a whole and its attitude towards sexual harassment at the workplace and how it is to be handled,
In its desire to give saturation coverage to such crimes, TOI led the way. But there were four oversights that ought to have been caught by alert editors.
So why did this issue not generate more discussion in the print media? Could it be linked to the fact that IIPM is a generous advertiser,
News channels were quick to brand Ashis Nandy as casteist, but newsrooms themselves are staffed overwhelmingly by upper castes,
The apparent ability of the media to make or break movements has generated unreal expectations among the public.
The media are guilty of blindly reporting the motivated leaks by the police about Pinki Pramanik's sex.
There is a difference between two toilets and two toilet blocks. There is a difference between the budget for sanitary repairs in a government office building and the sanitation budget of the government of India.
Media makes personalities. It also breaks them. These last two weeks have been an illustration of how this happens and the 'personality' is Anna Hazare.
The health of the Indian media is supposedly robust but the state of healthcare coverage in the Indian media is almost comatose. It snaps out of that coma only when 'health' and 'wealth' meet.