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Archive for August, 2013
Cricket’s media tamasha
Correspondents of The Economist are famous for being not famous. There are no bylines, and this stems from a strongly-held belief that attaching a name to reporters undermines their credibility. Economist correspondents therefore almost work undercover. It is perhaps to compensate for this anonymity that journalists at the Economist invariably end up writing books. And James […]
कसरी र किन पत्रकारिता
कुन चाहिं पेशा सबैभन्दा बढी बदनाम छ भनेर केही वर्षअगाडि अमेरिकामा एउटा मत-सर्वेक्षण गरेका थिए रे । नैतिक हिसाबले सबैभन्दा कमजोर मानिने वकील रहेछन् । तर कानून व्यवसायीहरूपछि सबैभन्दा अलोकप्रिय पत्रकारहरू नै परे । शायद नेपालमा पत्रकारहरू त्यति बदनाम नै भइसकेका छैनन् होला, तर हाम्रो सामूहिक चरित्र पनि त्यति आशाजनक छ भन्न सकिंदैन । हाम्रा […]
Still exiled to cyberia
Rewinding to 1999 and the piece ‘Can the South Asian Toad Leapfrog’ was a sobering reminder of just how fast technology is moving forward, even in our part of the developing world. Himal Southasian carried this version in its online edition on 5 August, 2013. It was nice joke 13 years ago to say: “90% of Indians […]
