Comments on: Blogging and mainstream media http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media India's first (established 2003) and very own desi blog awards, the Indibloggies are publicly-chosen awards conferred on bloggers from India and the Indian Diaspora. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:41:56 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Som http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56725 Som Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:51:36 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56725 I'm a journalist who runs a cricket blog and having been at the both sides of the fence, I know exactly why mainstream media never takes blogging seriously. You can't deny the fact that a large number of bloggers would make excellent feature writers and analysts, if given a chance. But then can you really equate professionals and amateurs in any walk of life? A blogger doesn't have access to ground realities and insights that a reporter is privy to and hence goes by whatever appears in the mainstream media. Most take it as gospel and few can really figure out how much of it is coloured by either editorial policy or individual interests. Trust me, few get to know the real story. Besides, how can one overlook the fact that a blogger is essentially representing himself and a reporter his house? As a blogger I can say/write/deduce whatever and get away with it for its hardly noticed beyond a minuscule number. As a journalist, that would be fatal, not only for me but also for the house I work. A blogger writes because he feels like, a journalist because he has to. A lot more, including his/her job, is at stake for a journo and he just can't afford the (creative) liberty of a blogger. The truth is bloggers, who do it for the love of it, are simply not in a position to separate the grain from the chaffe and that is none of their blame. I use my blog to write stuff which I can't in my office. In my case, it's not the content but the format, which straitjackets me as a journo and I turned to blogosphere for that free expression. Blogging can never replace mainstream and it doesn't need either. The trend has already started and the mainstream media would embrace blogging more and more in the coming days. Already, newspapers like Mail Today, Mumbai Mirror have started daily 'Blogger's Park' sections and I only see the trend growing. It adds more colour and spice and brings in fresh approaches. But when it comes to the serious business of news, I don't really see bloggers in the picture. I’m a journalist who runs a cricket blog and having been at the both sides of the fence, I know exactly why mainstream media never takes blogging seriously.

You can’t deny the fact that a large number of bloggers would make excellent feature writers and analysts, if given a chance. But then can you really equate professionals and amateurs in any walk of life? A blogger doesn’t have access to ground realities and insights that a reporter is privy to and hence goes by whatever appears in the mainstream media. Most take it as gospel and few can really figure out how much of it is coloured by either editorial policy or individual interests. Trust me, few get to know the real story.

Besides, how can one overlook the fact that a blogger is essentially representing himself and a reporter his house? As a blogger I can say/write/deduce whatever and get away with it for its hardly noticed beyond a minuscule number. As a journalist, that would be fatal, not only for me but also for the house I work. A blogger writes because he feels like, a journalist because he has to. A lot more, including his/her job, is at stake for a journo and he just can’t afford the (creative) liberty of a blogger.

The truth is bloggers, who do it for the love of it, are simply not in a position to separate the grain from the chaffe and that is none of their blame.

I use my blog to write stuff which I can’t in my office. In my case, it’s not the content but the format, which straitjackets me as a journo and I turned to blogosphere for that free expression.

Blogging can never replace mainstream and it doesn’t need either. The trend has already started and the mainstream media would embrace blogging more and more in the coming days. Already, newspapers like Mail Today, Mumbai Mirror have started daily ‘Blogger’s Park’ sections and I only see the trend growing. It adds more colour and spice and brings in fresh approaches. But when it comes to the serious business of news, I don’t really see bloggers in the picture.

]]> By: Renjith Nair http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56718 Renjith Nair Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:38:15 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56718 I would like to comment that, most of the Indian Media is politically biased, especially when it comes to BJP rules states they are surprisingly misleading the readers and viewers in this country. Infact, in my true knowledge BJP ruled states are doing well in all aspects compare to other states.We know that there is not a single news paper or visual media which is not run by a family in this country.If you consider CNN-IBN it is the most visibly biased visual media channel ever India have seen, so obsessed with Gandhi dynasty,Rajdeep and his Wife Sagarika is totally after Narendra Modi and BJP. If Modi sneezes it is a headline story in CNN-IBN!.if you consider NDTV PRANNOY ROY is trying his best to be a pseudo-secularist. But if we closely watch each of their programs it is increasingly getting biased and a person with common sense can understand what is going on behind the scene.Prannoy Roy and Barkha Dutta believes they are the only intellectuals left in this country!.If you look at the news papers, we know the history of Indian express. What role Goenka played in Indian politics utilizing his family run news paper business.Vir Sanghvi of Hindustantimes ( Late KK Birla is a staunch congressman) is all the way praising Sonia as if his career itself is pledged for that cause. A fair exemption can be made for Times of India ,I don’t know If I am correct.Otherwise there is a serious conspiracy going on this country by these new founded intellectual Pseudo Secularists.We must be able to differentiate what is right and what is wrong as these channels are targeting young urban population mixing news with bit of masalas and Tabloid especially the Hip-hop culture. They are not aware that their credibility and neutrality is being lost infront of the masses.In India Media ethics is a neglected truth.It is the era of family run businesses for personal and political gains.In the name of freedom of speech they are misleading the people to make thier own profit and gains.Who care where this will lead the country to????? I may be dubbed as a fundamentalist because of my comments,that is the new trend prevail in India.But reality bites and people should analyze the news particles coming to them before believing in it.Because for many ,it affects thier intellectual behaviour. There should be some accountability of the Media institutions in this country and we the Citizens are responsible for that.Please Beware. I would like to comment that, most of the Indian Media is politically biased, especially when it comes to BJP rules states they are surprisingly misleading the readers and viewers in this country. Infact, in my true knowledge BJP ruled states are doing well in all aspects compare to other states.We know that there is not a single news paper or visual media which is not run by a family in this country.If you consider CNN-IBN it is the most visibly biased visual media channel ever India have seen, so obsessed with Gandhi dynasty,Rajdeep and his Wife Sagarika is totally after Narendra Modi and BJP. If Modi sneezes it is a headline story in CNN-IBN!.if you consider NDTV PRANNOY ROY is trying his best to be a pseudo-secularist. But if we closely watch each of their programs it is increasingly getting biased and a person with common sense can understand what is going on behind the scene.Prannoy Roy and Barkha Dutta believes they are the only intellectuals left in this country!.If you look at the news papers, we know the history of Indian express. What role Goenka played in Indian politics utilizing his family run news paper business.Vir Sanghvi of Hindustantimes ( Late KK Birla is a staunch congressman) is all the way praising Sonia as if his career itself is pledged for that cause. A fair exemption can be made for Times of India ,I don’t know If I am correct.Otherwise there is a serious conspiracy going on this country by these new founded intellectual Pseudo Secularists.We must be able to differentiate what is right and what is wrong as these channels are targeting young urban population mixing news with bit of masalas and Tabloid especially the Hip-hop culture. They are not aware that their credibility and neutrality is being lost infront of the masses.In India Media ethics is a neglected truth.It is the era of family run businesses for personal and political gains.In the name of freedom of speech they are misleading the people to make thier own profit and gains.Who care where this will lead the country to?????

I may be dubbed as a fundamentalist because of my comments,that is the new trend prevail in India.But reality bites and people should analyze the news particles coming to them before believing in it.Because for many ,it affects thier intellectual behaviour. There should be some accountability of the Media institutions in this country and we the Citizens are responsible for that.Please Beware.

]]> By: 84735 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56710 84735 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:00:16 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56710 Blogging is the future and everyone needs to get online and stay connected with the world ... We are living in a very special time in history as we move closer to the point of ascension ! We will awaken to a new reality of who we really are ... our spiritual oneness which connects everything in the cosmos is God ! Peace & Love :) Blogging is the future and everyone needs to get online and stay connected with the world … We are living in a very special time in history as we move closer to the point of ascension !

We will awaken to a new reality of who we really are … our spiritual oneness which connects everything in the cosmos is God !

Peace & Love

:)

]]> By: Gemini http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56699 Gemini Mon, 26 May 2008 11:53:35 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56699 You hate it, you love it, you throw it, you use it... but you CAN NOT IGNORE it... that's what is 100% true about blogging! :) You hate it, you love it, you throw it, you use it… but you CAN NOT IGNORE it… that’s what is 100% true about blogging! :)

]]> By: thiva http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56698 thiva Fri, 23 May 2008 08:47:16 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56698 nice nice

]]> By: Ishani Duttagupta http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56637 Ishani Duttagupta Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:57:20 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56637 AN interesting post. I'm a journalist with mainstream media and a blogger too. Personally, I feel that my blog and my newspaper are two completely different platforms with no conflict between them. Each caters to a different kind of content, as far as I'm personally concerned. AN interesting post. I’m a journalist with mainstream media and a blogger too. Personally, I feel that my blog and my newspaper are two completely different platforms with no conflict between them. Each caters to a different kind of content, as far as I’m personally concerned.

]]> By: The Indian Mainstream Media and Desi Bloggers | DesiPundit http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56632 The Indian Mainstream Media and Desi Bloggers | DesiPundit Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:54:30 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56632 [...] Hum Blogistani Essay Series’ second offering, Confused wonders why the mainstream media in India continues to feel threatened by bloggers even though we number only in the thousands (much less in the political blogosphere) [hat tip: [...] [...] Hum Blogistani Essay Series’ second offering, Confused wonders why the mainstream media in India continues to feel threatened by bloggers even though we number only in the thousands (much less in the political blogosphere) [hat tip: [...]

]]> By: The_girl_from_ipanema http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56626 The_girl_from_ipanema Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:25:27 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56626 1) Nice post! 2) Everyone and their brother can publish an anonymous or even eponymous blog on the www and spout theories unchecked. It gets harder to separate the wheat from the chaff, that might partly be the reason that bloggers are not taken as seriously or assigned as much authority as MSM in the eyes of the public. Bloggers are also less accountable for their words to some extent compared to an MSM reporter. 3) in the case of the NDTV feature on bloggers, I agree it was insular, but I suspect it was more out of ignorance/ penchant for sensationalizing than out of any hostility towards blogging in general. But i didn't watch it, so perhaps am not qualified to say. 1) Nice post!

2) Everyone and their brother can publish an anonymous or even eponymous blog on the www and spout theories unchecked. It gets harder to separate the wheat from the chaff, that might partly be the reason that bloggers are not taken as seriously or assigned as much authority as MSM in the eyes of the public. Bloggers are also less accountable for their words to some extent compared to an MSM reporter.

3) in the case of the NDTV feature on bloggers, I agree it was insular, but I suspect it was more out of ignorance/ penchant for sensationalizing than out of any hostility towards blogging in general. But i didn’t watch it, so perhaps am not qualified to say.

]]> By: bee http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media/comment-page-1#comment-56625 bee Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:24 +0000 http://www.indibloggies.org/blogging-and-mainstream-media#comment-56625 thank you for a very insightful and accurate assessment. thank you for a very insightful and accurate assessment.

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