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| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| Media bloggers everywhere |
A new media blog seem to crop up every day. After the bitter experience Pradyuman Maheshwari went through after taking on Times of India regularly in his blog - and which eventually led to a badly written legal notice from someone representing Bennet Coleman and closure of his blog - blogging seemed to have finally caught the fancy of journalists.
Who are the most noisy media bloggers today?
Actually, we do not know. Anonymity is the name of the game. As a working journalist can be fired by an angry management easily - not to mention closure of future employment opportunities - media bloggers have decided to stay anonymous.
This has its positives and negatives. For one, we have no idea if the people behind a blog have any agenda or not. Journalists are a vicious bunch - I am sure most journalists will agree. And if they can stab someone in the back or pull them down a notch or two, dead sure they will do it. On the other hand, there are still a few journalists left with some moral angst about the direction taken and means employed by today's journalist, that the only way he can fuel an insurgency without jeopardising his livelihood is through an anonymous blog.
So who are the 'biggies', as Pradyuman maheshwari used to put it?
warfornews.blogspot.com is a happy battleground for English TV journalists. Presstalk.blogspot.com has been around for a while, and while the writer is an anonymous 'K', many seem to know him well. bullshitpress.blogspot.com is a newcomer, but has a few (angry) points to make, and newspapers and journalists are regularly poked fun at here.
What do we propose to do here? Perhaps, write about media bloggers. Maybe, we will stop that in a while and write about the Indian media, including television. Maybe we will abandon it. Maybe, we shall have some of you as collaborators in this blog, and if you want to stay anonymous, we will take responsibility for what you write - we shall definitely go through it first, then. No suing us, we can't have that.
This blog can't be anonymous - it's hosted on dancewithshadows and its the dancewithshadows.com bunch who are running it. We are not anonymous, as we are pretty sure we can write about stuff and not get sued or dismissed. So the posts would be signed by its writer. We are easy to contact, and if our emails are not published on the blog, that is to avoid automated spam software and email bloat. You can easily contact us using the feedback form on dancewithshadows.com
B Mathew |
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