Sharing the Best and the Worst: The Indian news media in a global context

If I were to seek pride in India now it would in a tiny way be part of my pride; if therewere to be disappointment and regret I must now sharethat regret, and in some oblique way accept its responsibility…Only now, after twenty-five years of knowing India, can I make the presumption of claiming a small share of its rare joys and its frequent sorrows. — James Cameron, Foreword to An Indian Summer: A Personal Experience of India, James Cameron, I think, would have got it right – I mean about the Indian news media as well. I doubt they were part of his pride when he came upon their front ranks, with their wildly speculative ways, during his first visit to India in 1946, a time whenthe transfer of power and, in the grim background, the Partition of India were being negotiated. A quarter century later, he was still not impressed with India’s newspapers, not to mention All India Radio; he found the tightly controlled broadcast network preoccupied with ‘the machinery of government as distinct from the realities of democracy’ and, like the newspapers, not showing ‘the slightest knowledge of nor interest in the affairs of other places’ (Cameron… Read full this story

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