DailyPost 543 FACEBOOK FACE OFF ”If you can’t face the world, facebook,” adage is sad commentary on people, who want to live off Facebook, as if the brick & mortar world did not exist. The wheel has taken full circle, if we go by the first reaction of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, post the Cambridge […]
DailyPost 531 THE CHANGING EVENT An event means a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance. Event is a milestone in one’s life or that of the community, organisation or the nation. It’s not a necessity, but most of the such events are marked by functions to celebrate or commemorate the event.
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DailyPost 472 IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN Understanding of being in the public domain is different for different persons. Whatever be our perception, we want to be in the public domain. Public domain fascinates one & all, broadly based on the human urge to be known and to make sense to the community. In general, while
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DailyPost 468 ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE Contrary to the popular perception that electronic evidence is required only for cyber crimes, due to the all pervasive nature of computers, the backbone of all evidence is electronic, in today’s world. A conventional crime might end up having more of electronic evidence than majority of the cyber crimes. In terrorist
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DailyPost 465 STINGED! Video seems is the media of choice for today’s electronic multi-media generation. The secret operation of the expose is known as the sting operation. If you don’t get stinged, then the sheer repetition is supposed to provide that impact. In case, this strategy fails, then harbingers of doom & change, the protagonists
DailyPost 430 MEDIA – PREJUDGING THE STORY The fourth estate is the bulwark of the democratic mechanism, to bring the truth to the fore, albeit in totality. Emphasis on one point that too not the main one might lead a skewed narrative very difficult to get over. The inherent nature of media is instant dissemination
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DailyPost 407 PARADISE PAPERS Had it not been for the digital age, the world would not have seen this humongous cache of documents. ’An almost perfect tale for the twenty-first century – the failure of democracy, the triumph of commercial power & greed, greed, greed.’ This is what Nick Davies, correspondent, Guardian has to say
DailyPost 396 A TWITTERATI WORLD? If Trump would ever be treated iconic for, it would be for his reckless use of Twitter, at all times, for all topics, as if the US govt. media machine has come to a standstill. Unadulterated as it is & damaging to the core to the Presidency & the nation,
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DailyPost 385 PUBLIC THINKERS, PUBLIC DOMAIN & PUBLIC LIFE Undeniably, all of us think, worthwhile or not is a different story. Societally useful would be for another day. Individual & cumulative societal thinking is really well manifested on the medium of the day; the social media and how much of it qualifies as a Public
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DailyPost 371 DO PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS MATTER? Public intellectuals as known genre is missing in this country. The intellectuals are referred to at times in TV & other debate. These belong to a creative class ; the writers & their ilk. Some of a different type get into activism get packaged by the nature of activism,
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DailyPost 353 ELECTRONIC MEDIA EXPERTS The mass invasion of electronic media changed the rules of the game. News formats of yesteryears became a thing of the past & brand new formats started tumbling down the electronic media giants stables. News became a game to be played 24/7 basis, entertaining enough to keep the audiences glued,
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