Letter to the Hoot—where do you stand?

IN Opinion | 30/05/2005

This pertains to your comment on how different editorials across newspapers carried the story of dissolution of the legislative assembly in Bihar.

Dear Editor,

This pertains to your comment on how different editorials across newspapers carried the story of dissolution of the legislative assembly in Bihar. While my view is not as qualified as your`s may be, nor does it emanate from an authority on political affairs, there are a few observations I`d like to make as an avid reader of such columns.

Your commentary on editorials verges on the objective stating the references and the omissions made by each newspaper. However, the scope of the commentary does not prescribe its own editorial. So where we know precisely the leanings of the newspaper(viz pro-UPA, anti-NDA) through Hoot`s critique, we somewhere stop short of understanding its own position on the issue. Where it establishes the lapses and the flaws in this particular case, it also fails to provide a qualified comment on issues like horse-trading, political morality, anti-defection and the future of coalition politics. I can understand this restraint owing to the scope of the article yet it would situate the issue in a more comprehensive context.

This is my personal opinion aspiring to be a suggestion.

Pawan Singh

Hyderabad

May 28, 2005

TAGS

Letter

Subscribe To The Newsletter

Media Watch Briefs

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.