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MESSAGES OR MASSAGES?

MESSAGES OR MASSAGES? is an attempt at media analysis in the present Indian context. The author has attempted to be a watch-dog of the Indian media, dissecting it from an ethical point of view.

Selections from his weekly column “Media Matters” in Indian Currents have been brought together in this volume.

H JACOB SRAMPICKAL has a doctorate

England (1986-90). He has also done

Pune. He has been the President of the National Association for Media in India and Asia for Catholics and has authored a number of books on the media, and been a jury member at various international film festivals. Presently he is the Principal at NISCORT, (National Institute of Social Communications, Research and Training, A-2, Sector-I, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, UP -201 012) of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of India (CBCI).

Table of contents

I. Introduction 8

IS. The Power of the Media

A. Films

1. Canned Dreams

2. Good Films, Bad Films

3. Is Song and Dance the Real Thing?

4. The Screenplay Controversy

5. Meraa Bharaat Mahaan – NRI Films
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6. Can Film Festivals Be Censored?

7. And the Award Goes to

8. What Chance for India at the Oscars?

9. Film Stars in Politics

10. What Use Film Magazines?

B. Television

11. Does TV Loot Cinema?

12. Coping with the Serial Boom

13. Watching an Ad or a Programme ?

14. TRP Rates Go Tumbling

C. Radio

15. Community Radio

D. Information Technology

16. Digital Divide to Digital Provide

E. Media Education

17. Are the Media Eating Up Our Lives ?

18. How Can Media Education Subvert

Mediated Values?

Messages

19. Media Education in the Academic System

20. Pro-Life, Sexuality and Media Representations

21. Media Representations of Women

22. Media and the Poor

23. Media and Sports

F Media Ethics

24. Media and War

25. Tehelka: Some Musings

26. Media Ethics is a Tight Rope Walk

G. Media Control

27. Policing the Media

28. Prasar Bharati: A Dream Dying

29. Convergence Bill: A Bill Without A Will

H. Training

30. Need for Thoroughbreds in the Media

31. Admissions Open… for Media Training

32. A New Type of Training Needed

I. Alternatives

33. Sparring with the Media

34. Media Alternatives