On Friday 26 February 2010 11:04 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
4. I used to depend on ratings and play counts to build smart playlists, but
Last.fm and iTunes Genius have made that obsolete, so it no longer matters
that all my music is in one library.
I find this quite interesting. Could you
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Will need to think more about this, but broadly agree. However, it might
just be that India's brand of democracy is one mitigating factor to the
trend you speak of.
The great Indian democracy and its power to save the world
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
you nailed it. they call it activist journalism and i hate activism - on
either side of the political spectrum (I detest the EFF and moveon as much
as I do the teabaggers)
Perhaps what you meant to say is that you
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I don't have any A Priori objection to
activism
activism. I *do* take serious
exception to _dishonesty_ masquerading as jounalism - whether it is
Sainath, Tom Friedman or Arundhati Roy.
Sainath's Everybody loves a good
Yup. Methods, policy too sometimes
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On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Anil Kumar anilkumar.naga...@gmail.comwrote:
We brew coffee using a Prestige coffee maker.
I found an excellent Vietnamese coffee filter (in St.Louis) which is my
age-old Tambram kapi filter with improvements; it has a plate that I can set
on the glass or any
On 3/2/10 2:38 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I don't have any A Priori objection to
activism
activism. I *do* take serious
exception to _dishonesty_ masquerading as jounalism - whether it is
Sainath, Tom
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Divya Manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
*Almost* all journalism is of this kind, the rarer form that is actually
objective is almost never found,
Huh? Your average beat reporter (whose ilk forms the overwhelming
majority of the hack brigade) reporting on
BTW, can this thread gently drift back to the topic I originally
started? It's easy to beat up on individuals and their reporting
style, but I was hoping there'd be some debate on the larger issue at
hand.
You cannot interpret facts without adopting a subjective opinion -
however slight.
Yes, the very act of interpreting should mean you consider the context
for why the act occurred, which means you hear from both sides of the
story the perceived aggressor and the victim. Not all stories are
black
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Divya Manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
I especially hate photo journalists who show pictures of torture, babies
dying of hunger while vulture waits nearby, etc. They are meant to titillate
and blind us with excess anger and fury. After seeing those pictures,
On 3/2/10 9:24 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you write off photojournalists as manipulators out just tug at
your heartstrings with a hidden agenda, you should read about what
happened to the photographer who took the iconic photograph of that
starving child with a hovering
On 3/2/10 9:24 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you write off photojournalists as manipulators out just tug at
your heartstrings with a hidden agenda, you should read about what
happened to the photographer who took the iconic photograph of that
starving child with a hovering
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Palagummi Sainath - 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism
Tomas Friedman - Order of the British Empire
Arundhati Roy - Booker Prize, 1997
Please give me some examples of objective journalism that you'd like
to
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