These days looking at newspapers one cannot but notice a striking anomaly; while the Government and its various ministers insist that there is no shortage of gas, the same newspapers show pictures of long queues at gas shops, and feature stories of migrant labour returning home because domestic gas was not available, or of industrial units shutting down due to gas shortage.
With close to a thousand TV channels broadcasting 24X7, 100,000 newspapers, innumerable radio stations, and billions of messages on social media ~ all competing for eyeballs ~ the attention span of the average viewer has been reduced to some few seconds.
Print journalism is in a state of crisis. The circulation of newspapers in India seems to have stagnated in relation to population growth, meaning the proportion of people reading printed news has dropped.
In Hong Kong for the 2023 Asian Global Dialogue, reading two newspapers today shows how we live in parallel mental worlds but are joined at the hip in one physical planet.
Many group housing societies banned the entry of delivery boys, not for the poison some of them may have carried within their pages but out of worry that they came coated with a dreaded virus.
And when the archives of tomorrow will be examined to learn how sport dealt with Covid-19, well might posterity wonder how we came to put the sort of spin we did on learning to live with the virus ~ an idea often propounded like a glib online spiel ~ that so unapologetically threatened human lives.
The central government has also allowed the use of SDRF for homeless people, including migrant labourers stranded due to lockdown measures.
In Budapest, paperboys dressed up in vintage outfits and distributed newspapers from the time of the revolution.
When it is a matter of controlling the right of newspapers to distribute freely, there is little to choose between…
I grew up with the distinct smell of daily newspapers . Dailies bring back buckets full of pleasant memories. There…
