March , 2007
Hurley in the morning
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A range of outraged critics have expressed their fury at the media's coverage of the Elizabeth Hurley Arun Nayyar wedding. Similar fears of a "trivial" "sensational" media were voiced during Aamir Khan's wedding, the Chatwal wedding, and before that the Rakhee Sawant kiss episode and other incidents involving celebrities. Ah the degraded media! Why has it sunk so low? The media is peddling celebrity culture. The media is peddling religious stereotypes. The media is misrepresenting economic facts. The media is creating heroes out of nobodies. The list of complaints against the media is as endless as the Milky Way. Unfortunately the critics have missed the point. They are unable to come to grips with the animal that is 21st century media in India. They are trapped in socialist style elitist pronouncements about The Death Of Old Standards. Today's media is a beast that mutates constantly. It is incorrigibly....
More about Sagarika Ghose
Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for 20 years, starting her career with The Times of India, then moving to become part of the start-up team of Outlook magazine, subsequently joining The Indian Express as Senior Editor. She was anchor of the flagship BBC World programme Question Time India before moving to CNN-IBN as prime time anchor and Deputy Editor. She is the anchor of the award-winning flagship debate programme Face The Nation on CNN-IBN. She is also a columnist for the Hindustan Times. She has won numerous awards including FICCI Media Achiever Award and Gr8-ITA Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is a graduate in History from St Stephen's College and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where she gained an MA and M.Phil in History and International Relations. She is the author of two acclaimed novels The Gin Drinkers and Blind Faith, both published worldwide by HarperCollins Publishers.
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