Monday, June 15, 2009

Editors’ Power Play

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In Orissa, journos take full time to politics with startling results, says TSI's Dhrutikam Mohanty


And finally – the editors who will make their electoral debut... Kailash Mishra, editor of Amari Katha, is currently president of the Samajwadi Party in Orissa. It is said he converted his weekly into a daily two years back with an eye on the upcoming elections. But when asked whether his paper is a tool for promoting his political ends, he too denied this saying, "It's nothing like that. Amari Katha is not my party's organ. It only publishes my political activities, and conveys my thoughts to the people." Another newcomer, editor of Paryabekshak, Pabitra Mohan Samantray, says, "If I get elected I will quit my editorial responsibilities."

Comments senior political analyst Basant Das, "Currently, political personnel believe that to be successful in politics one must have a newspaper in hand. On the other hand, editors have understood that it's easier to build up a career in politics with a media house backing their candidature."

Adds Ganeshwar Mishra, former editor of Samaj: "Owing to close ties between editors and politicians, most of the newspapers in Orissa are not free. They are like party leaflets." Indeed, pick up any of these papers and you will invariably find them spilling over with 'news' of inaugurations and ceremonies presided over by their 'editors' – or dishing out pre-poll pledges of the political parties which are backing them. And these editors are making sure that most of this PR exercise is complete before the Election Commission's Code of Conduct comes into force. This phenomenon – if it can be called that – can only be checked if the courts take note of reports in the free media about this large scale and totally unchecked conflict of interest.


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