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Member since	07-23-2008
Last visited	11-21-2009
Timezone	5.00 GMT
About Me	Raju Narisetti is Editor of Mint
Total Posts	166
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Posted at 6:37:00 AM

On open letters and media ethics

Readers of this Romantic Realist are used to seeing a lot of posts on Indian media. Since there is now some published debate on this particular issue, I thought it might be interesting to post this open clarification that ran on the front page of Mint on 22 December in relation to a previous "Open Letter" by an unnamed IAS officer that had run in Mint. ((And once you have read the Mint article(s) below, feel free to read a different view from a signed Raisina Hill column by Business Standard newspaper's No. 2 editor AK Bhattacharya.

Tagged in: Raju Narisetti, India, Mint, media criticism, romantic realist, code of conduct, media industry, P. Chidambaram, media ethics, business standard, ak bhattacharya, raisina hill

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Posted at 10:43:00 AM

Why Anil Ambani wants $2.1 billion from his brother, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance; Arthur Sulzberger Jr of The New York Times and the Romantic Realist

Stories in Indian media about estranged billionaire brothers, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Ltd , India's most valuable company by market capitalization, and Anil Ambani , of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group , shaking hands at a meeting of industrialists, and resulting, usual speculation of a potential thaw between them, reminded me of this legal notice. Anil Ambani has formally sued his brother Mukesh Ambani along with Arthur Sulzberger Jr , chairman of The New York Times Co ; Clark Hoyt , public editor of The New York Times; Anand Giridharadas.

Tagged in: Mint, raju narisetti, new york times, media criticism, romantic realist, Indian media, ht media, media industry, The International Herald Tribune, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, libel, Clark Hoyt, Diligent Media Corp, MJ Akbar, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Anil Ambani, defamation, DNA, Mukesh Ambani, R. Jagganathan, Anand Giridharadas, media lawsuit, Reliance Industries Ltd, Bombay High Court

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Posted at 4:14:00 PM

When Kalam doesn't cut it

In one of those typical company-wide emails that only IT people can send, one landed in my in box a little while ago, titled " How Can I Contribute in Saving Corporate Costs?" The IT department has decided that sending me an excerpt from a speech, supposedly given by former Indian president and now major gadfly , A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, titled " Be the change you want to see!" (which in my book is now clearly up there in recently overdone cliches) is the perfect way to try and make me conserve energy and money. The excerpt is all.

Tagged in: India, terrorism, abdul kalam, narayana murthy

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Posted at 8:22:00 PM

Is Obama's Time but also the era of Wall Street scammers

In what was a predictable pick, here is what Time magazine had to say in naming Barack Obama as its 2008 "Person of the Year": "For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year." ( Read full package of stories here ) If the criteria is that Time's “Person of the Year” selection was the “person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and.

Tagged in: cricket, barack obama, Wall Street scammer, Isro, Time magazine, 2008 Person of the Year

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Posted at 3:43:00 PM

The Page 3 culture's deep roots

While the pervasive Page 3 approach (a less newsy Page 6 for those New York Post fans among the Romantic Realist's readers) focusing on "who attended wearing what on their sleeve and on their body" rather than "what was show there" is how most Indian metro newspapers cover art these days, just how deeply entrenched this has become was brought home earlier today when I got this email invitation for the opening of an art show on 17 December in New Delhi. What struck me was how the invitation, about four artists and their video.

Tagged in: raju narisetti, new delhi, media criticism, romantic realist, Indian media, Page 3, art, video art, Page 6

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Posted at 3:02:00 PM

We were wrong but you are still wronger!

Being a believer in newspapers having a clearly articulated and transparent corrections and clarifications policy, this Romantic Realist was delighted to see Hindustan Times promote a very prominent Clarifications/Corrections column that asks readers to alert htreporters@hindustantimes.com for any "bloomer" in the paper and promising that the paper is "happy to correct ourselves." ((Regular readers of Mint , where the Romantic Realist has a day job, are probably familiar with its permanent Page 2 Corrections & Clarifications.

Tagged in: Mint, hindustan times, romantic realist, code of conduct, Indian media, journalism criticism, craig silverman, mumbai terrorist attacks, corrections and clarifications, media industry

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Posted at 5:41:00 PM

Pakistani Editor Najam Sethi Awarded 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom

Hot off the press is news from the World Association of Newspapers/World Editors Forum of this prestigious award. The Romantic Realist , who is on the board of the World Editors Forum , is delighted that a South Asian journalist has been recognized for standing up to authoritarian regimes. Here is the citation from WAN/WEF, though I think it should be Najam not Najaam: " Najaam Sethi , Editor-in-Chief of Friday Times and Daily Times in Pakistan, has been awarded the 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association.

Tagged in: journalism, Pakistan, romantic realist, Golden Pen of Freedom, najam sethi, WAN, Najaam Sethi, Friday Times, Daily Times, World Association of Newspapers

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Posted at 4:45:00 PM

The intellectually bankrupt Indian Left

Muntazer al-Zaidi , the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at US President George W. Bush during a press conference, in what is typically an act that ranks among the worst possible insults in the Arab world, was at least making a direct--and risky--public political statement about Iraqi deaths following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Indeed, the television journalist whose twin shoe attack, while apparently shouting "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog.This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq," forced.

Tagged in: romantic realist, Iraq, Baghdad, Sitaram Yechury, iraqi journalist, CPM, nuri al-maliki muntazer al-zaidi, George W Bush, Iraq invasion, shoe attack

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