By Mari Marcel Thekaekara via New Internationalist My very first blogs almost two years ago, talked about the growing alcohol problem in India. While successive governments have patted themselves on their backs, each claiming credit for our...

Deception. Dissection. A New Perception. By Sara Faith Alterman via New England Film It seems practical, even reasonable, to rely on news organizations to broadcast accurately. Such informational institutions exist to dig up the facts, right? Maybe...

By Alexander Smoltczyk via Der Spiegel João Biague says he only has one way to lose his job: “success.” As soon as he manages to seize a shipment of drugs, he admits, “I’ll be fired.” But “success”...

By Somi Das via News Laundry So you thought most of our Indian media is thriving on sheer sensationalism and has breached any and every code of accepted conduct to remain ahead in the TRP race.  Well,...

Via Pew Research Center The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys. This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center...

By Ken Hanly via Digital Journal Yemen is accused of jailing and executing people who were still children when they committed their crimes. Some of the executions are due to lack of birth certificates but others are...

By David Zurawik via Baltimore Sun There is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester. Television news has been polarizing, sensational and mostly focused on personality rather...

By Lisa O’Carroll via Guardian Cross-party talks on the Leveson report are in deadlock with Labour and the Conservatives failing to agree key issues and the lobby group representing victims of press intrusion including the McCanns threatening...

By Danny Schechter via Disinformation Back in 2002, South Africa hosted a UN environmental Summit on sustainability. It drew a rag tag army of green activists from all over the world, many excited to visit the now...

By Joseph Allchin via Vice The preacher came to life in a packed courthouse. Delwar Hossein Sayedee, one of Bangladesh’s most popular imams burst into fiery rhetoric, denouncing the “infidels” and his “atheist” accusers. Moments before, the...