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The KG Report
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News, Views, Reviews and Some Abuse on How the Media Reports and Interprets Events and Happenings...
- Author: KG Kumar
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Recent Posts
The translator vs the interpreter
John le Carre, writing in his novel The Mission Song, makes this useful distinction between something ordinary in the business of dealing with words and something quite extraordinary, even magical: Never mistake, please, your mere translator for yo...
New monument honours slain journalists
A new monument in London pays tribute to the hundreds of journalists killed in the course of their jobs.According to Democracy Now!, the daily TV/radio news programme, which airs on over 700 stations, mainly in the US, an estimated two war journalis...
Indonesia's old radio hands decry falling standards
Old radio hands reunite, fault gap in foreign language skillsAccording to a report in The Jakarta Post, former radio announcers of the Voice of Free Indonesia (VOFI) have criticized contemporary announcers for their low proficiencies in foreign langu...
OJR winds up website
After a decade, the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication has decided to cease publication of the website, Online Journalism review (OJR). In his final post at OJR, Robert Niles said that the archives will remain onli...
Indians taking over Britain?
Lord Archer: ‘Indians are the new Jews and are taking over Britain’Touring India to promote his latest book, Tory peer Lord Jeffrey Archer proclaimed that Indians are the ‘new Jews’ of Britain, that Indian businessmen are ‘taking over’ Br...
The Empire Writes Back
Randeep Ramesh, writing in The Guardian on 9 June 2008, tells us that "when the Times of India broke the story that it had bought Virgin Radio for £53m last weekend, it marked the first foreign takeover by an Indian media company. The paper's headli...
