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RE:RE:Media idiots
by Jeffrey Mittal on Sep 14, 2007 08:22 PM
In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, including 5,364 daily newspapers
published in over 100 languages. The largest number of newspapers were
published in Hindi (20,589), followed by English (7,596), Marathi (2,943),
Urdu (2,906), Bengali (2,741), Gujarati (2,215), Tamil (2,119), Kannada
(1,816), Malayalam (1,505) and Telugu (1,289). The Hindi daily press has a
circulation of over 23 million copies, followed by English with over 8
million copies.
There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among
them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan
Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu
Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara
group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.
India has more than 40 domestic news agencies. The Express News Service, the
Press Trust of India, and the United News of India are among the major news
agencies. Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.
NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain
supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan
because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in
Pakistan. Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General
Secretary of Communist party of India.
India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported BJP is
now bought by NDTV!! Si
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