Quality journalism demands knowledge; and irrespective of the hype of India emerging as a hub of knowledge economy as created by few major IT/BPO firms in India (supported by mainstream media again); the fact is those jobs are mostly ‘cyber-coolism’ that relies on labor arbitrage. India would be truly emerging as another hub of knowledge economy when one would see the NYT, WSJ, BW, Forbes or others with similar stature referring articles of Indian media and not vice-versa to fill up the pages or content. I don’t understand how we nurture a false belief to be a significant part of global knowledge economy when we can’t even produce content that the world things to be world-class; rather mainstream Indian media borrows freely or legally from the content of others. What comes as original is mostly unreadable or unworthy of watching.

The good and bad thing about competition is over competition brings down the quality for end-consumer as most of the media in India is pathetically poor. Now when all are poor, the end consumer suffers because there is no competition on quality; and all end-consumers are taken for a ride. However one can be hopeful that eventually one or two would focus on quality; and the rest would be thankfully eliminated at the earliest. Unlike in the U.S., where unlimited resources back a potential winner (take for example Google), in India we back unlimited winners having the ability of raising few millions with self-claimed capabilities and expertise.

Otherwise I don’t see much difference between qualities of Indian politics and mainstream (lamestream?) Indian Media. The day any one improves; the other one is bound to improve. Though there is no light of hope from any as of now; one is still forced to bet on media because of obvious reasons.

In this specific case, you should send the link with your valid charges by e-mail to Daily Pioneer (they should have anyway seen your article here; however they may still give the excuse that they are not aware of the charges); give them couple of days to respond and then take your e-mail back to Blogger News. I know publishers like Indian Express would throw two different data in their two different articles, difference being ten times; and when asked to explain; would prefer to be silent.

Part of the problem is ourselves because we tolerate their unethical quality of journalism silently. And this has come to a point where one can abuse Indian Politics and Indian Media by any democratic or undemocratic words; and they would never respond to that. Not even one of them has the guts to challenge the truth that most of them are indeed incapable. I would love to see at least one change and state that what’s going in the name of media in India isn’t a healthy sign for the society. Media criticizes administration, politics; in India one never sees one Indian media criticizing another Indian media; which at times is done by the NYT and that lot.