A Reference Book for Journalists, Media Students & Opinion Leaders from all Walks of Life
Power, Press and Politics’ is an insider account of the workings of the Indian media, across mediums and languages.?In these deeply fractured days, there is one thing that everyone seems to agree upon—that the media is facing a crisis of credibility. A problem further heightened by television’s vicious 24/7 news cycle and the online warriors with their colourful opinions. The journalistic fraternity has occasionally tried to introspect and find out where it has gone wrong, which has often led to some form of course correction.?Extreme work pressure, time constraints, the competition to survive, and the culture of paid news and advertorials adopted by the media houses for their survival have caused huge damage to the integrity of newspapers.?
The anecdote-rich book gives a history lesson to the current crop of journalists, media students and practitioners.?It provides?the current crop of journalists with a historical perspective on what shaped the profession and led to the dilution of the editor’s power due to market pressure. He writes about how newsrooms handled pressure from politicians or the management, and how several veteran editors lost their jobs because a senior politician did not like their stories. That tribe of editors is dying out, being replaced by those who shift their ideological stance in accordance with the governments in power.?How the Indian press accepted its lowly fate during the dark days of the Emergency. History remembers those who stood their ground and became beacons for future generations of journalists.??
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How was the self proclaimed Godman Chandraswami exposed despite the tantric guru’s close association with prominent leaders and media barons? How did the fodder scam in 1990 come to fore? How did the correspondents reveal murky arms deals, such as the Bofors scandal? Is ‘paid news’ the new normal in Indian media? What were the political pressures on senior editors like Vinod Mehta and Kuldip Nayar that led to their resignation? There is all this and a lot more if you are interested in knowing how the Indian press fared as the country progressed, how it was muzzled from time to time and how it survived.??