Is 'Vijaya Karnataka' ready for a Dalit editor?
By churumuri
Vishweshwar Bhat's exit from Vijaya Karnataka yesterday has been
treated by the paper's owners and managers with the same contemptible
gracelessness that has been the hallmark of their conduct vis-a-vis
journalists in the last two decades. There is not an announcement in
today's paper nor an explanation.
It is as if the reader, who is told why Yana Gupta didn't wear her
underwear, somehow doesn't deserve to be told why there is a change at
the top of the State's biggest newspaper, in today's imprintline.
The boiler-plate internal Times VPL memo, designed to reassure the
rest of the flock and cool their anxieties, announces the name of E.
Raghavan as the new consulting editor of the paper, on top of his
current responsibilities as consulting editor of the presciently named
Vijaya Next.
But just what kind of new editor should a mass-circulation paper like
Vijaya Karnataka get? The Udaya TV anchor Deepak Thimaya, who did a
short stint as editor of Vijaya Next before being replaced by
Raghavan, has posted a provocative suggestion on his Facebook page.
"I think a qualified journalist with a Dalit background should be made
editor of a major newspaper in Karnataka. We may get new perspectives
and the issues addressed may be different too. The time is ripe."
Thimaya doesn't take the name of Vijaya Karnataka, of course, but the
hint is clear.
Also read: Why Deepak Thimaya left Vijaya Next
https://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/vijaya-next-editor-deepak-thimaya-resigns/
Anybody here who's Dalit and speaks English?
https://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/anybody-here-whos-dalit-and-speaks-english/
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