[icernet] Only radical journalism can fight fascism: N. Ram

[Arul Selvan]

  N. Ram, editor, Frontline, has said that though the Indian media 
eminently deserved the comment that it is `a voluntary handmaiden of its 
political masters', there are many `bright spots' and `plenty of 
resistance from the media to fascistic attacks'. Presenting a paper on 
`Fascist depredations on the media' at the EMS seminar on `Fascist 
Threat: Underlying Processes' organised by the AKG Centre for Study and 
Research here today, Mr. Ram said the coverage of the U.S. aggression on 
Iraq by the Indian media would bear out the fact that it was far more 
objective than its U.S. counterparts when covering the war on Iraq. 
There was plenty of adverse editorial comment on the Vajpayee 
Government's reluctance to condemn the aggression and any analysis of 
the media should take this also into account, he added.

Source:
http://hinduonnet.com/2003/05/18/stories/2003051803550400.htm