Friday, 29 February 2008

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Who owns the media in India ?‬


‫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. ‬

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.His wife and Brinda ‬
Karat are sisters.‬

‫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 . N.Ram's wife is a Swiss national. ‬

Indian Express: Divided into two groups. ‬

The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition)‬

‫ACTS Christian Ministries have 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 Telउgu 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. ‬

‫भारते समाचारप्रसारजगत्‌ विदेशीयजनैः आक्रामितं इति विरलाः एव जानन्ति। अतः एषः विषयः सर्वेभ्यः प्रकाशितव्यः। कञ्चिदपि देशं वशीकर्तुं सेना वा शस्त्रं वा न अपेक्ष्यते। केवलं समाचारान्‌ सूक्ष्मतः वक्रीकृत्य जनान्‌ मोहयितुं शक्यते। तेषां चिन्तापद्धतिं एव परिवर्तयितुं शक्यते। येन स्वतन्त्राः वयं इति मोहिताः ते जनाः वस्तुतः दासाः एव केवलं। George Orwellलिखितायां 1984इति कथायां एषः अभिप्रायः संयक्‌ प्रदर्शितः। शरीरदमनात्‌ बुद्धिदमनं दुर्निवार्यं। कः उपायः? कोऽपि लघूपायः नास्ति। स्वदेशस्य प्राचीनमाहात्म्यज्ञानेनैव जनाः जागृताः प्रेरिताश्च भवेयुः इति ममाभिप्रायः। तत्‌ ज्ञानं कथं लभ्यते? तत्र संस्कृतभाषायाः भूमिका महत्वपूर्णा। सर्वे संस्कृतपण्डिताः भवन्तु इति न। किंतु यावच्छक्यं भारतीयाः भारतविषयान्‌ कयापि भारतभाषया अवगच्छन्तु। किंतु महाराष्ट्रठाकरे इव स्वभाषाकूपमण्डूकाः मा भवन्तु। भारतेतिहासं भारतदृष्ट्या पश्यन्तु। संस्कृतामृतपानपोषिताः इदं भारतं अखण्डं अखण्ड्यं च इति कृतनिश्चयाः युवजनाः एव तत्‌ महत्कार्यं साधयितुं शक्नुयुः। तादृशाः युवजनाः जनिषीरन्‌!‬