MANAGING MEDIA, MODI STYLE
N.K.SINGH Everyone wants to manage the media ---- governments, corporate houses, political players and, of course, the media barons themselves. Practically everyone with a stake in the power game wants its fingers on the control button. But it is easier said then done. The Watergate case bears testimony to the fact that managing media is a difficult task even for the most powerful people. The present dispensation in New Delhi seems to have developed its own strategy of managing the media. It wants to curtail, media’s access to information. At least that is the message that emerges from last month’s order by the Home Ministry restricting newsmen’s entry to its offices in the North Block. According to website Scroll.in the ministry has prohibited its officers from passing on any information to the journalists. Even the Home Secretary is supposed to brief the media only through Additional Director General of Media, the official spokesperson. Accredited journalists can interact...