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  • Rapes Drinking Media

    I had posted recently  two articles on the Reasons for Rape.

    A rape Poster.
    A rape Poster.

    One post dealt with the publicity seekers and the media coverage which seemed to have only the TRP in its mind.

    And the issue of punishing the accused in th recent Delhi Gang Rape descended  into a free for all for men Bashing and demand for more Freedom for women  to dress and  move about.

    In the din some issues  have been left out.

    One such dangerous influence is Drinking,.

    Rape Statistics US.
    Figure 1. Of the 12.1 million American women who have been raped, nearly 30% were assaulted when they were younger than 11 years old. Another 32% were raped between the ages of 11 and 17; 22% were raped between the ages of 18 and 24; 10% were between the ages of 25 and 28. 6% of rapes occurred in women over the age of 29.

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    Alcohol use by the victim or the perpetrator is frequently associated with acquaintance rape.

    • In one, study 26% of men who acknowledged committing sexual assault admitted that they were intoxicated at the time of the assault, and an additional 29% reported being mildly buzzed—55% were under the influence of alcohol.
    • In the same study 21% of the college women who experienced sexual aggression on a date were intoxicated at the time of the assault, and an additional 32% reported being mildly buzzed—53% were under the influence of alcohol.
    • More than once a minute, 78 times an hour, 1,871 times a day, girls and women in America are raped.

    Sexual assault has nothing to do with passion; it uses power and control to dominate and humiliate victims.

    • 50% of rapists are between the ages of 15 and 24 years old (see Figure 1).
    • Studies consistently conclude that 75% of all assaults are planned.  When three or more assailants are involved, the number climbs to 90%.
    • 78% of rape victims know their attackers.

    The average annual rate of rape and sexual assault among American Indians is 3.5 times higher than for all races.

    • American Indian victims of violence are the most likely of all races of victims to indicate that the offender committed the offense while drinking.
    Race of victim Percent of victims of violence reporting offender drinking (average annual percentage 1992-1996)
    American Indian 46%
    Black 28%
    White 36%
    Asian 22%

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    • Victims of rape and sexual assault often don’t report the crime to the police and often do not report it to anyone.
    • According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 70 % of sexual assaults are not reported. For Native women reporting can be really difficult because of the high level of mistrust for white agencies and helpers.  Other reasons Native women do not report sexual assault is the fear of being ostracized by their families, as well as the complicated jurisdictional issues on reservations.
    • The National Violence Against women survey indicated a 15.9 percent victimization rate of American Indian/Alaska Natives by an intimate partner—significantly higher than for women of other races.
    • Of the 854 American Indians convicted in federal court in fiscal year 1997, 20 % were convicted for rape.”

    Now if we look at the coverage of Media on the recent gang rape , how many of them focused on the issue of punishing th guilty?

    They concentrated more who said what on the ‘Rape’

    The jokers who came on the Television channels were interested in cheap publicity and said things more for shock value so that they may be noticed.

    Even those who had the interests of women were crude to the point of calling women names, instead of asking them to be careful.

    This type of coverage is not new.

    Media, including print Media sensationalizes any thing that is perverted.

    Look at the coverage they extend to father/uncles raping a child, women/murdering their husbands with the help of their paramour,

    revealing /nude photographs under the garb of social reporting and Fashion.

    Look at our own Times of India, whose TimesNow cried Foul the most in the recent gang Rape, publishing a Page In Your City showing faceless people showing off cleavage, writing about drinking parties.!

    Now to Investigative reporting.

    In the name of revealing the inner world of Tees the SUn publishes the Diary of Two Teens.

    ”

    Found out that on Friday Hetty got three love bites, two from Luke and one from Jake.

    May 17, 1993: Went to athletics. Tom is such a b*****d. He took my trainers so I took one of his and Katy took the other.

    Then Jake threw one over the fence!

    He took my hair ruffle and went to get his trainers so me and Katy followed him into the boys’ changing rooms and he attacked me with his Lynx (deodorant)…

    It went all in my hair so Katy tipped his pencil case out and we kicked it around and then I got my ruffle back.

    July 1, 1993: Teacher found out about Katy going to an all-night party.

    She thinks she is sleeping with a boy in the year above us and she has to tell her mum. I hope she is OK.

    July 2, 1993: Katy told her mum and she didn’t mind.

    I was surprised but I wish my mum was like that.”

     http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/4744201/my-mad-fat-diary-readers-entries.html#ixzz2I6YpojO6

     

    http://www.montana.edu/wwwai/imsd/alcohol/Vanessa/vwrapefactsheet.htm

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  • TIMESNOW Untold Story II

    Continuation of 20 Million paycheck I Rank Borrowed Clip TimesNow Untold Story I

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    Six years on, Goswami’s nightly debate show, The Newshour, has become the cultural and economic centre of Times Now. “It’s the centre of the solar system,” a senior manager at the channel said. Discussions about Times Now are invariably discussions about Goswami, whose abrasive moderation every weeknight has inspired angst-ridden open letters, a stream of parodies, and even standup comedy routines. The Newshour runs anywhere between 60 and 120 minutes and, partly by dint of its variable length, attracts more viewers than competing shows with fixed slots at 9 pm. Its advertising rates are among the highest for prime time news television, at Rs 16,000 for a ten-second spot. And the show is so vital to the relevance and well-being of the network that “60 percent of the editorial resources are used for The Newshour”, the senior manager said. It pulls in 40 percent of the channel’s overall viewers, and a fifth of its Rs 1.5 billion annual revenue.

    Goswami isn’t shy about letting staff know that his show pays their salaries—its advertising revenue, the senior manager told me, nearly covers the channel’s approximately Rs 340 million wage bill, including Goswami’s own Rs 20 million paycheck. As his name became a stand-in for the channel, Goswami could do as he wished. He exercised this right roughly, creating an organisation obsessed with breaking news and setting the agenda to the exclusion of everything else. From the inner pages of newspapers he plucked events scantly explored but rich with emotional resonance….

    Goswami the Man.

    ‘When I called Goswami to request an interview for this story, he declined, saying that he was interested in reporting the news, not becoming it. Reasoning that he was just a regular newsman, he expressed surprise that anyone would pick him as a subject, and offered that I was welcome to come by his office for a cup of tea if I agreed not to write the story. Shortly after my call, according to two current Times Now employees, Goswami informed his staff in Mumbai and Delhi that a magazine was writing about him, and asked them not to cooperate with any interview requests—a plea his employees took as an order.

    In private, Goswami had no doubt that his channel was no ordinary news organisation, and that he was no ordinary newsman. In a speech to the newsroom in 2011, which was recorded by a former reporter, Goswami made it clear he believed the channel’s place in history was already secure: “Can the history of India be written honestly without the contribution of Times Now to a new form of journalism in the era that we are in?” he said. “Think about it. Think about the bigger picture. I can tell you it can’t be written.”

    The Panel Handling.

    he only two benchmarks for prospective guests, the desk editor said, were that “both sides should speak flawless English, and should be extremely aggressive”. The show is meant to be partly debate, partly journalism, and partly—if Goswami has his way—a public confessional. But it is mostly an open-ended chunk of airtime from whose centre Goswami live-directs an intellectual reality show where dramatic things happen. Participants abuse other guests and the show’s host. People walk away, leaving empty windows behind.

    As a matter of principle, The Newshour pits people and their extreme views against one another—but its main character is always Goswami. A typical episode finds him demanding answers, making accusations, riling up participants and passing judgment, venting the angst of a man upset by how far his country has fallen. His pronouncements are rooted in everyday frustrations: Why is Pakistan dithering? Why can’t Australians admit that they’re racist? Why is the government indifferent to the middle class? Who is responsible for all this?

    “I think that a lot of people must realise that the editor-in-chief of Times Now is someone who has excelled himself at executing, to the T, the brief that was handed down by the management,” the former high-ranking editor said. “The brief was to be relevant on urbane issues to the urban viewer…

    The activist and academic Madhu Kishwar, a frequent but exasperated guest, penned a widely-circulated open letter to Goswami, complaining that “panelists are expected to simply come and lend further strength to the anchor’s delusion that one hour of Newshour will rid India of all its ills”. The senior manager explained Goswami’s approach. “He feels TV is about drama. You have to stir something up or the audience will be lost. He sees his role as livening things up.”..

    The Private view and the Public comment.

    In his recent book Pax Indica, Shashi Tharoor, the former minister of state for external affairs, recalled sitting for “a lengthy interview at the Ministry of External Affairs with a particularly egregious TV anchor—famed for his hectoring rants on assorted peeves, mostly unsupported by either fact or reason”. Tharoor did not name the anchor, but the subject was “a crisis in Indian-Australian relations” that he blamed on “channels whipping up mass hysteria” over alleged racist attacks on Indians, a campaign Goswami had pounded for weeks on end. “The cameras stopped to change their tapes,” Tharoor wrote, “and in the ensuing break I asked him whether he was really serious about the kinds of things he was alleging on air. ‘How does it matter?’ he asked perfectly reasonably. ‘I’m playing the story this way, and I’m getting 45 percent in the TRPs. My two principal rivals are trying to be calm and moderate, and they’re at 13 percent and 11 percent.’”

    Source.Caravan magazine.

    http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/fast-and-furious?page=0,2

    No comments are necessary.

    http://ramanisblog.in/2012/12/29/20-million-paycheck-i-rankborrowed-clip-timesnow-untold-story-i/

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  • 20 Million Paycheck I Rank Borrowed Clip TIMESNOW Untold Story I

    TIMESNOW news Channel in India occupies 1 Rank among news channel viewership.

    Whether it reports News or Anchor’s views is debatable.

    Its News hour at Prime Time at 9 pm Daily is watched by Millions, not so much for News but to observe a man’s views being thrust on the panelists.

    Or how to scream and twist a story;to brand a group as villain, Be it a Politician makes a stupid comment, a theft is reported(Police is pilloried),a rape is unearthed(Men in general and Government in particular),…

    But not a word will be mentioned of Sonia Gandhi!

    I have been under the impression that Mr.Arnab Goswami is assuming this facade,like Mr.Karan Thapar to draw out the interviewees, then I caught on.(read my post’ Karan Thapar interviews  Ms.Jayalalithaa’)

    The Man is made that way, highly egocentric who believes that no body other than him is right ,

    Please read my blogs on this and TIMESNOW coverage.

    Also watch the video towards the closing of this post 2  how Mr.Goswami ‘motivates’

    ‘There will be no other News Channel next year’…

    I know you do not get credit due to you…

    I do not know hoe to inculcate,”

    Caravan Magazine has written an excellent piece on the subject.

    Excerpts.

    On Borrowed clips  on Mantralaya Fire, Bombay

    “Producers at Times Now, which calls itself “India’s most-watched English news channel”, borrowed footage from a Hindi channel until their broadcast vans reached the place at 3.20 pm, and the channel’s reporters and cameramen began to record pictures and describe the scene. A jittery camera found frightened people inching away from blazing windows on a ledge high above. A man dressed in white, just out of reach of the firemen, swung down from an air conditioner’s holding cage, put one foot on an open window frame a floor below, and gingerly reached out to another window, a few feet away, with the toes of his other foot. Nothing but the ground lay beneath. His desperate bid to stay alive replayed every few minutes, looped on a split screen alongside live images of the spreading flames.’

    How the Channel beats its rivals by swift action and clever presentation.

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    but once the cameras were ready and footage streamed in to Times Now’s main bureau in central Mumbai, the operational machinery that set it apart from other channels came alive. Raw pictures of the fire arrived at the bureau’s “ingest room”, where two technicians were standing by. Under normal circumstances, footage is pushed through from here to the edit room; edited clips are conveyed onward to the output desk, and then launched into space from the production control room. For this event, the machine was primed to behave less like a conveyor belt and more like a catapult. Incoming footage was diverted straight to the production room, with words tacked on remotely as the digital footage streamed by. The entire chain of events, from recording to broadcast, took less than 30 seconds. This streamlined process was the primary reason editors and reporters said Times Now was unmatched in live coverage; as one former Times Now journalist told me, “There is no bureaucratic delay, as there is with other channels.” But nimbleness was only one reason why Times Now had consistently beaten its more established rivals in the ratings from late 2008 until early 2012. The frenetic coverage of the Mantralaya blaze demonstrated the channel’s other strength: a flair for creating drama.

    By 4.20pm, Times Now had five reporting teams at the scene. (“We kind of went berserk that day,” a senior producer told me.) The broadcast cut rapidly from one reporter to the next, while the live images from the fire took up less than half the screen area: the rest of this real estate pulsed with banners and headlines. Over the course of one typical minute—between 6.04pm and 6.05 pm—there were 58 studio-induced flashes on the broadcast. No bar stayed still, words evaporated and reappeared, and at the centre of this sea of red and blue were reporters performing the simple task of describing what the viewer could see for himself. “We used to call it deaf and dumb,” said Naman Chaturvedi, a former associate producer who handled on-screen graphics. “Hum jo bolte the woh likhte the. Jo likhte the woh dikhate the. Jo dikhate the woh sunate the. (What we spoke was what we wrote was what we showed was what we told you.)”

    Before becoming the editor-in-chief at Times Now, Goswami had spent nine years at NDTV, rising to head its national news desk. At Times Now, he scorned his former employer openly, letting everyone know that the network was lumbering and irrelevant; he referred to it as “the white elephant”. “It was said to us, quote unquote, ‘Let NDTV do their social service,’” a former high-ranking editor who was part of Goswami’s core team said. When Rajdeep Sardesai, who had been Goswami’s boss at NDTV, launched CNN-IBN in December 2005, one month before Times Now went live, the ambushed newsroom watched nervously. (Goswami tried to keep up his team’s morale by trashing the new channel in text messages to his staff, a member of the Times Now launch team recalled.) To make matters worse, CNN-IBN quickly asserted itself against NDTV. Goswami had worked under Sardesai for almost a decade, and despised him so deeply that his son had made a charming drawing of Goswami triumphing over his former boss. Goswami is a dedicated father, and he proudly displayed it in his office.

    The channel’s first victory in the ratings gave Times Now a legitimacy that had been elusive while it trailed NDTV and CNN-IBN since its beginnings in January 2006. Staffed with reporters from other channels and newspapers, the network began life as an unusual hybrid under an editor who was only 33 years old. It aired general and business news during the day, and light programming at night, a format that had been approved by the Times Group’s powerful proprietors, the brothers Vineet and Samir Jain. The mix was unique—news channels were usually one thing or another, not both—but weekly numbers were poor. What the channel stood for was unclear. An output editor from the core team who worked closely with Goswami recalled that “nobody watched the channel.

    http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/fast-and-furious?page=0,1

    Source: Caravan Magazine.

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  • ‘Sex Position 2102’ ‘Erotica Conference’ Rape Media Double Talk

    Enough electronic bytes have been heard on TV channels on Gang rape ,agitations and special Talk Shows.

    The media which have been screaming Murder on Delhi Rape is doing yeoman service on a very important topic of’

    Watch India‘s First Ever Conference on Erotica in India Today Group.

    The Agenda /Topics of Moral,Social and National importance.

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    8:00-8:45 p.m.
    SEX ON THE BEACH AND OTHER COCKTAILS
    Sip cocktails and enjoy a compilation of the most stunning picture erotica. India Today celebrates 10 years of its path finding sex survey with a special edition. An Intimate Journey, a compilation of articles, photographs and data from ten sex surveys.
    8:45-9:15 p.m.
    Does Success Breed Infidelity?
    Speaker:
    Shobhaa De, Writer
    9:15-9:45 p.m.
    MAIN ACT Scoring in the Big City
    Do city lives keep us too busy for sex? Cricket matches, bowling night outs, bachelor parties, beer runs and more – there’s much to keep men occupied. So how do girls grab their attention? And how do guys get in a word edgeways between their partners’ career commitments and family demands?
    Speakers:
    Randeep Hooda, Actor
    Madhuri Banerjee, Author, Losing My Virginity And Other Dumb Ideas & Mistakes Like Love And Sex
    Paromita Vohra, Filmmaker, Writer
    Sanjay Srivastava, Sociologist/writer of anthology on sex
    Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita, Tantric sex guru
     There gems from the past.
    The India Today survey finds Indian women meditating intently on the prayer beads of fulfilling and wholesome sex. At the root of this pleasure quest could be the post-modern woman’s desire to take charge of her own destiny.
    The technology of fantasy has expanded dramatically, allowing urban Indians access to a supermarket of choices, but all it has done is expand information, not intimacy. Relationships are less conversation, more convenience; less playgrounds, more prisons.
    Excellent ,Media meant for Social Welfare!
    Look at the Topics and the Speakers, these are liberated intellectual Women!
    Keep it up.
    Some images from them.
    India Today Images.
    India Today Images.
    Images from India today
    Images from India today

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  • Pedophiles,Scams, Exposes and Media

    There have been quite a number of exposes by The Media of late.

    O the global level,of recent exposes is the exposure of phone hacking by the Media ,which made Murdoch close his News of The World,Jimmy Savile of The BBC  and broadcaster’s marquee news magazine wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal, which cost the BBC  Director General George Entwistle his job.

    In India we had the radia tape on 2 G Spetcrum Scam,ISRO-Antrix-Dewas,CWG,CoalGate,Maharashtra Irrigation,Salman Khurshid et al , all exposed by the media.

     

    Three is a growing voice that The media is wrong in trying the case in Public and that it is not fair.

    The difference is that the information relating to a shady deal is being reported from an angle,need not necessarily be correct in the information-this is subject to verification,for all.

     

    One must remember these exposes score self goals as well, as  in this case and for instance the Guwahati Molestation case’ when the modus operandi of the filming received more stinging comments.

    Then, to find out the truth is the job of the investigating agencies to ferret out the truth.

    If incorrect,media ca be awarded punitive punishment.

    That way the media can be made more responsible.

    To shut it down from publishing only News that has happened and scientific facts-for these Text Books and Gazette will do,will deprive democracy of it a great pillar of strength.

    With out these exposes we would never have heard of scams in India starting from Bofors!

    The action taken on these proven facts is still zero.

    Imagine what goes unreported.

    Story.

    George+Entwistle.jpg.
    George Entwistle,Director General BBC.

    Coming on top of the Jimmy Savile crisis, which was prompted partly by the fact that Newsnight had shelved an earlier investigation into allegations of child abuse, this was particularly damaging to the BBC.

    But this was also about the handling of the crisis. Last month, Mr Entwistle was accused by MPs of showing “an extraordinary lack of curiosity” over the Jimmy Savile affair and they told him to “get a grip”.

    On Saturday in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said he knew nothing in advance about the Newsnight broadcast nor had he seen a newspaper report revealing Lord McAlpine may have been wrongly accused.

    MPs, former editors and broadcasting executives were unimpressed and so, I understand, were members of the BBC Trust.

    On Sunday, the job of acting director-general will be taken by Tim Davie, who’s been running the radio side of the BBC but who has no direct journalistic experience.

    The BBC still faces very serious questions, not just about its journalism but about how the organisation is run.’

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20284124

    Related:

    http://ramanisblog.in/2012/07/16/guwahati-molestation-video-sex-education-is-no-answer/

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