VAMSEE JULURI : Articles

BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/03/2018

A Reuter’s report reveals the bias, clichés, and laziness that crop up on the subject of Hindus and India’s ‘first inhabitants’.

The Stoning of the Scholars

BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/12/2016

When a scholar’s lifelong study of ancient knowledge systems is reduced to slogans, it means the media is imposing its own preconceptions on his work.

Framing the California textbooks debate

BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA MONITORING |16/06/2016

How did the US and Indian media convert an attempt to erase ‘’India’ and ‘Hinduism’ into a fight between ‘bad’ Hindus and ‘good’ secularists?

The LA Times and erasing India from textbooks

BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/04/2016

In reporting California’s history curriculum changes that will remove the words ‘India’ and ‘Hinduism’, the LA Times has been less than truthful,

How the media twisted Irani on Mahishasura

BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/03/2016

Why were her remarks framed as being in opposition to Mahishasura worship rather than as opposition to the denigration of Durga?

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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.