Agents of Brands – not of Change

Non-implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is akin to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day and a tsunami hitting a country each week. Every year, ten million children die before they reach the age of five, as 800 million people suffer from hunger. Poverty claims more victims than war does.

Actually this is enough diet for the media, which is ever-hungry for sensationalism, to get attracted towards MDGs. Still, it is not, and in all probabilities it would not. After all, the sufferers due to non-implementation of MDGs are not real air travelers. They are poor people, most of whom cannot afford the cost of consuming media and definitely not potential customers of fancy products, displayed in advertisements on print pages or TV screens. So, why should media bother for such people who are in no way going to contribute in any way to their revenue? May be a story/article here or there can be published or telecast just as a fashion or for the sake of a point to show that we too care for poor. But not a sustain campaign. weiterlesen…

Missing in the Media

In a highly corporatised world, Media is all about Mediations in the market place. The media mediations are often influenced by the demand and supply in the market place for news, views and entertainment. In India, Thailand and most of the countries in Asia, while political controversies, news about celebrities, and sensational scandals and murder mysteries find the front page, the issues that affect most of the people get pushed outside or deep inside as a single column news or fleeting image on the TV screen.

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Censorship: A Development Killer

Blog: Karla Sponar

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote: If you can’t talk about something, then you should remain silent.

During the last weekend in April President Obama was able to speak. He had decided to bring an uncomfortable subject into the open. He had found the right words for this subject. His tone was moderate, but strong enough to draw attention to a terrible injustice. weiterlesen…

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