"STUNG BY STING"

How unethical are the ethics of sting ops? What methods are valid to divulge transgressions? Is deception justifiable when the aim is to tell the truth?
The new era of sting operations bring forth some particularly acute questions.

The unmarked angle to the media now is “sting operations” to expose a social crime.
One can debate endlessly about the ethics of these issues, and not be any closer to resolution, except where motive is clear. But how can a layman judge the credibility of the motive?

Marching into someone’s solitude to expose certain issue is morally wrong because the behavior of the people involved might or might not be natural. They might be motivated to commit a crime or illustrate offense to be projected as a crime.
There exists huge distinction between ‘tempting’ or ‘noosing’ people to accept gifts or backhanders and ‘exposing of corruption’. The misdeed would not have been committed if the covertly journalist had not encouraged the act.
In this way investigative journalism is giving way to ‘Yellow Journalism’.

The disclosure of sting operations carried out by Tehelka on the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat created a stir at a time when the state was headed for assembly elections.
Questioning the timing of the sting and the manner in which it was carried out clearly indicated the mindset to bring about sharp communal divides’ at the time of polls and urge the Election Commission to take steps to check such ‘menacing stab’ to worsen communal split.

These days the media - print, web or television are beneath stern competition. They have to look for what sells ahead of journalist's ethic about presenting the news to public.
But there is a world that does not exist as far as journalists are concerned….

Sting operations are lawful journalistic paraphernalia and means of investigation, but like all other prevailing tools they have to be used vigilantly

The journalist is not a policeman. His intact "supremacy" gushes from the societal good that his profession does. In good journalistic associations, there ought to be ample control methods in place against probable mistreatment of the reporters’ entrée to sources of authority. Above and beyond, there is a basic difference between the quality of print exposés and those by television, due to the differences in the nature of the technology used.

Neither is sting good journalism, nor a secure device for a journalist to lever.

A journalist once said, “News is something someone somewhere doesn’t want to be published – all the rest is advertisement”.

Paperback affaire…!!!!

Bonjour fellas...!
As I told you to check back for constant updates, here I am with my topic of the day. I shall be discussing about the Patna Book Fair which took place at a nine day schedule in Patna. A grand affaire that ended on Sunday witnessed a huge gathering of visitors and particularly the youth.
There were nearly 570 book stalls and going by the organizer's claim this was bigger and better than ever before. The fair inaugurated by chief minister Nitish Kumar witnessed the visit of some of the elevated dignitaries of the literary world including veteran poet-filmmaker, author GULZAR, filmmaker Prakash Jha, noted writer Prabhash Joshi, Sonal Mansingh & many others.

With legendary works of highly acclaimed n criticized author Taslima Nasreen, and others including Vishnu Nagar, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Manu Bhandari and Salman Rushdie the organizers were sure to anticipate a grand success in their endeavors. Books of APJ Abdul Kalam, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and Taslima Nasreen sold like hot cakes.

Apart from fiction best sellers or celebrity memoirs, the other hottest selling book at the Patna book fair was the holy QURAN with more than 500 copies being sold, mostly to non Muslims.


Notwithstanding the books which were the main attraction of the book fair, there were numerous cultural fête, colloquiums, painting exhibitions and career counseling events.
The organizers had to rebuff some of the publishers in the lack of supplementary space because there was a huddle of publishers from all over the nation.

It was bigger compared to the earlier fairs and this time it added some big publishing house to its cadre like Penguin, Prentice Hall of India, and Jaypee.

So we hope to see some good and bigger publishing houses next time.

A PROLOGUE TO MY COSMOS....!!!!

I’m not a very good speaker but I can write pretty well...
I’m not a very good expresser but I can feel very well...
A little kinder, but a little blinder...
When I’m weary I try to be cheery
I’m brave when temptations bid me wave...

I am
physically Conscious
Spiritually Grounded
Professionally Aggressive
Creatively Ingenious
Musically Inclined
Fashionably Innovative
And that’s y I chose a profession where my thoughts speak for me…
Hhhmm… Ok my thoughts n my profession.. I’ll jus give u all a snappy briefing about my thoughts and profession. I’m into entertainment media and my gush of discussions would be revolving around everything and anything related to “INFOTAINMENT”. i.e. from books to magazines, from talk shows to daily soaps, from interviews to reviews, from IT to Fashion industry.

I talk less, but I like talk sense. My prior experiences in working have taught me how to bring ideas to life and that’s what I do. M an avid reader n among my favorites are false impressions, the fountainhead, satanic verses, the alchemist.

I am more than words. I am actions
I like more than simple things, I like things simple...

A Few lines by kamala das- would best describe me.

“I don’t know politics but I know the names
Of those in power, and can repeat them like
Days of week, or names of months, beginning with Nehru.
I am Indian, very brown, born in
Delhi, I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one.

The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queer nesses
All mine, mine alone. It is half English, half
Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest,
It is as human as I am human, don’t
You see? It voices my joys, my longings, my
Hopes, and it is useful to me as cawing
Is to crows or roaring to the lions, it
Is human speech, the speech of the mind that is
Here and not there, a mind that sees and hears and is aware.

I am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the
betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no
aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.”

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