This sort of centralized bullying is hard to comprehend today because there is so much more media.
For 22 years the media-politics saga of the Marans and the Sun Network was truly spectacular.
Journalism production and consumption now has a digital divide which is also partly a generation divide. The tools are different,
One takeaway from the lives of these men is the role of entrepreneurship in their ascent and in the kind of influence they wield. If you don't own your media platform the influence you wield can be transient,
Digitisation is a job half done which has so far benefitted the government the most, by way of taxes, and the consumer the least.
There are politicians who dabble in media and mainstream media owners who dabble in politics. Which category has the advantage?
Recent research has tried to understand the link between media exposure and voting behavior based on election studies done since 1996.
Never before have journalists had quite the same sense of being on their own where their access to information, and the protection of their freedom to function is concerned.
One did not know whether to laugh or cry at the spectacle of mighty broadcasters like Star and Zee confronting the threat posed to them by pesky video entrepreneurs.
"When you start to take risks you know that it is pure luck that you didn't get killed there… It's not worth these things. It's not worth your life."