[icernet] Changing journalism

[Arul Selvan]

In the old days, reader interests (and aspirations) did not define news. 
Today it does. Cricket news stays firmly on page one, when World Cup 
matches are on. If a bus ramming into an army truck kills a schoolgirl 
it would normally be first lead on the local page. But the Times of 
India in Delhi carried the story last fortnight as its first lead on 
page one. News about people has gained ascendance. The old newspaper of 
record is disappearing among English dailes in India, with The Hindu 
being one of the few left. Today's front pages have fewer stories, and 
they are less and less about political developments.


Source:
http://hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/stories/2003030200200300.htm