What is media and who owns media in Bhaarat - By Niranjan Shah

I have come across some interesting information about the ownership of media in Bhaarat. What is media? Media is plural of medium. Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). The word media was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks and of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. This includes messages that are distributed through the technologies, principally text in books, study guides and computer networks; sound in audio-tapes and broadcast: pictures in video-tapes and broadcast; text, sound and/or pictures in a teleconference. The means by which information is distributed such as print, broadcast, CD-ROM, World Wide Web, and so forth is also Media.

Mass media in Bhaarat is that part of the Indian media which aims to reach a wide audience. Besides the news media, which includes print, radio and television, the Internet is playing an

increasing role, along with the growth of the Indian blogging community. Compared with many other developing countries, the Indian press is relatively unfettered, except for obstacles in the way of setting up media companies which were part of the pre-1990 license Raj.

In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, including 5,364 daily newspapers published in over 100 languages. The largest number of newspapers were published in Hindi (20,589), followed by English (7,596), Marathi (2,943), Urdu (2,906), Bengali (2,741), Gujarati (2,215), Tamil (2,119), Kannada (1,816), Malayalam (1,505) and Telugu (1,289). The Hindi daily press has a circulation of over 23 million copies, followed by English with over 8 million copies.

There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.

India has more than 40 domestic news agencies. The Express News Service, the Press Trust of India , and the United News of India are among the major news agencies. Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.

NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan . Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of Communist party of India .

India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

Times group list:

Times Of India , Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijaya Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more. Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. “World Christian Council” does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.

Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne .

Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collobration with Times Group.

The Hindu:

English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland . Indian Express: Divided into two groups.

The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition). Acts Ministries has major stake in the Indian Express and later is still with the Indian counterpart.

Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telgu daily very recently.

The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India . Kairal TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)

Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.

The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners. The result is obvious. — Grandpa’s blessings

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Poor Hindus

Devendra Singh <devendra60@hotmail.com>

Once Robert Clive was asked as to how he conquered India with the help of some dozen Britishers. He said

Hindus could be bought with money and Muslims with women. He said "I did both". And British ruled India

for 300 years. When West Bengal was reeling under famine and 3 million people lost their lives, the

British exported rice from India . Anything more is required to show the cowardice of Hindus?"

Hindus continue to be slave of multi-national companies that bait them with seemingly good money and 'loyal' Hindus continue to lick their boots with passion. They have no time for their family and none for contributing something positive to their culture. They are making their careers but unmaking their children. Why we always want to be led by foreigners is a question every Hindu should ponder.

Devendra

Pro-Hindu Journalists

Pro – Hindu people talk about learning media skills or least sending their own children to learn journalistic skills Before having Hindu media, Hindus people must first need to learn to acquire the skills by doing courses and other ways of learning media and presentation techniques.

Getting the skills is the least of the problems. There are many Hindu journalists in India . And even if you have to train them, that too is pretty easy to do. Journalists can be trained on-the-job.

To get skilled personnel is the least of the problems. The biggest problem is getting the right media house.

Hindus have plenty of money and if they want they can buy a media house but even then they need creative skills to sell pro - Hindu news because you can't or shouldn't expect loyalty out of Hindus just to sustain a Hindu media house juts for the sake of it being Hindu. Quality and creativity sells which should be the weapon to the beat all other media houses.

Francois Gautier has started a Journalism School in India with the help of??? to train pro-Hindu Journalists… at Bangalore .

We all know this. Question is, why can't there be a media at par with IBN/NDTV / STAR / Indian express etc, which is controlled by Hindus? Why can't Pioneer, Organiser, Panchajanya become worldwide? There is anti Hindu media in Bhaarat, that does not mean that they cannot give the news about military along with Bollywood news.

In one of his interview Kalam has said that in our desi journals and media people still not represent a country of a billion people.

The Indian media has no ethics & has been anti Hindu for a long time especially NDTV. It is sad that we as Hindus cannot/ do not have our own TV Channel to correct the aberrations & project patriotism / Nationalism along with our ancient culture.

Journalism course can be same as it is in US or other Israel , etc.

When a person is pro-Vedic by nature and outlook, then he/she will look at the events in the Vedic light, and provide news and commentary to serve Vedic dharma and Rashtra interests.

Money generated from donations could be used for scholarship for journalism degrees.

Are some people saying that no university in Bharat offers a course in journalism?

If so, then we have to begin it somewhere.

We also need Vedic media of all kinds.

Many Vedic leaders with different abilities need to unite to make things happen.

Therefore, like minded people need to meet, discuss, figure solutions, decide actions, and do what they can. This is all with the attitude of - karma Nye vaa dhikaaraste, maa phaleshhu kadaachana.

For Stopping Conversion

The only solution, and probably the cheapest and fastest is to create our own Hindu media which will take the so called secular media head on. All these issues of forced conversions, Setu Samudram are NOT highlighted by the existing media. The anti Hindu media led by Christian fanatics are having a free run.
It is absolutely amazing that a giant organisation like RSS has got only two weekly news papers, ORGANISER & PANCHAJANYA which has got a circulation of few thousands.
Why can't we have media of the size and power of IBN, STAR, Indian Express etc? We are all intelligent people. If VHP can collect 2000 crores to build the ram temple, why can't they collect money to start some daily papers from the major cities of Bhaarat and a 24 hour news channel in Bhaarat? Every single news channel is busy spreading lies about Hindus. CNN/IBN & STAR, NDTV are the worst.
The frustration which we are venting out in this forum is fine but we need a BIG voice. Time is fast running out for Hindus.
There are news papers like PIONEER which are on our side. If they are funded properly they can take on the anti Hindu media.
John Kenneth Galbraith had called India a functioning anarchy.

During his term as the USA ambassador to India , or just after it, the late John Kenneth Galbraith had called India a functioning anarchy. Here is what exactly he meant by this term.

There are some things you say to attract attention. I wanted to emphasise the point, which would be widely accepted, that the success of India did not depend on the government. It depended on the energy, ingenuity and other qualifications of the Indian people. And the Indian quality to put ideas into practice. I was urging an obvious point that the progress of India did not depend on the government, as important as that might be, but was enormously dependent on the initiative, individual and group - of the Indian people. I feel the same way now (as I did some forty years ago) but I would even emphasise it more. We've seen many years of Indian progress, and that is attributable to the energy and genius of the Indian people and the Indian culture.
Galbraith, John Kenneth, in an interview in Outlook, August 20, 2001, on his comment that India is a functioning anarchy.

Pro- Hindu – minded people should put their ingenuity for promoting Hindu causes by starting pro-Hindu media and educational institutions along with earning money